{"id":243718,"date":"2025-10-27T08:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/243718\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T08:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T08:21:11","slug":"teenage-girls-make-shock-admission-over-mums-brawl-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/243718\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage girls make shock admission over mum&#8217;s brawl death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four teenage girls have pleaded guilty to killing a mother-of-two during a vicious brawl, making the last-minute move moments before they were due to stand trial for murder.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services responded to reports of a brawl in the Wollongong suburb of Warrawong about 6.30pm on November 22, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Kristie McBride, 39, was found suffering serious stab wounds and was rushed to Wollongong Hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/6421a31e-6cf1-4ad2-b37c-09312d0bb815.jpeg\"   alt=\"Kristie McBride, 39, was found suffering serious stab wounds and was rushed to Wollongong Hospital in a critical condition.\"\/>Kristie McBride, 39, was found suffering serious stab wounds and was rushed to Wollongong Hospital in a critical condition. (Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>The mother-of-two died 10 days later.<\/p>\n<p>Four teenage girls, all aged either 16 or 17 years old, were charged with her murder.<\/p>\n<p>They were all due to face the NSW Supreme Court today for the first day of their trial, but they pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>When they were asked how they pleaded, the girls each replied they were not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>The teenagers will face a sentence hearing in December before learning their fate next year.<\/p>\n<p>When court adjourned, they chatted amongst themselves and exchanged small smiles.<\/p>\n<p>The two younger girls will remain living in the community on bail while the older teens are in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Support is available by calling Lifeline on 13 11 14, Kids Helpline on 1800 55 1800 (for people aged five to 25) or beyondblue on 1300 22 4636\ufeff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four teenage girls have pleaded guilty to killing a mother-of-two during a vicious brawl, making the last-minute move&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-243718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243718","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=243718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}