{"id":1896,"date":"2025-07-18T01:54:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/1896\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T01:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:54:03","slug":"lachlan-young-pleads-guilty-to-murdering-hannah-mcguire-mid-trial-in-victorian-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/1896\/","title":{"rendered":"Lachlan Young pleads guilty to murdering Hannah McGuire mid-trial in Victorian Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A young man accused of murdering his former partner \ufeffin regional Victoria has suddenly changed his plea to guilty mid-trial.<\/p>\n<p>L\ufeffachlan Young, now 23, has been on trial in the Victorian Supreme Court in Ballarat over the murder of Hannah McGuire on April 5, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>He had pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter, admitting he did kill her and burnt her body in her own car, since the trial began on July 9.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/fc3d94f0-fd9a-46f3-a6e9-eaa730f7aecf.jpeg\"   alt=\"Lachlan Young is accused of murdering Hannah McGuire.\"\/>Lachlan Young is accused of murdering Hannah McGuire. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>However, he denied murdering the 23-year-old, claiming her death was instead an &#8220;unplanned and spontaneous&#8221; event.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Young changed his plea to guilty, admitting that he did murder McGuire.<\/p>\n<p>He will face a pre-sentence hearing at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young man accused of murdering his former partner \ufeffin regional Victoria has suddenly changed his plea to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}