Life sentence escaped for teenage boy who stabbed Peirce father to death with 6-inch fillet knife

The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was convicted of the murder of Petr Levkowski, 42, in a May 2022 raid at Bull Creek.

A father of two children has died after being viciously stabbed while trying to stop a teenage boy from stealing a bicycle from a 10-year-old boy.

After he and his wife Anna heard a commotion outside their home, a 15-year-old burglar approached them and stabbed them in the stomach with an 18-centimeter filet knife.

Levkowski’s wound was a terrifying eleven centimeters deep.

The teenager escaped a life sentence today and was instead sentenced to eight and a half years in prison with a five-and-a-half year non-parole period.

The first two years of his sentence while he remains a minor will be served in juvenile detention.

The juvenile’s youth, remorse, and relatively good behavior in custody influenced the sentence.

After a court ruled that the teenage murderer was “a bright student from a stable family,” he became involved in drugs and alcohol and embarked on a “gangster lifestyle.”

The judge said the boy behaved “immature, thoughtless and callous” and carried the knife around because he thought it was “cool and tough”.

Engineer Lefkowski loved Australians so much that his family moved from Russia just a few years ago.

A friend described him as a joy to all who knew him.

His wife was too distraught to speak to the media today while holding back tears while the verdict was delivered.