Teen bailed again — by same magistrate — after carjacking charge
A 13-year-old boy has been granted bail again by the same magistrate after allegedly threatening two women with a knife in a terrifying carjacking in Melbourne’s southeast.
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13yo on bail before allegedly carjacking women at knifepoint
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