{"id":777209,"date":"2026-07-03T21:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T21:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/777209\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T21:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T21:12:17","slug":"craigieburn-stabbing-victims-alleged-murderer-was-out-on-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/777209\/","title":{"rendered":"Craigieburn stabbing victim’s alleged murderer was out on bail"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 16-year-old boy charged with the murder of another boy outside a hospital in Melbourne’s north was on bail at the time of the alleged attack, a court has heard.<\/p>\n

Darweish Mohamed, 15, was found with stab wounds outside the Craigieburn Community Hospital just before 8pm on Wednesday night.<\/a><\/p>\n

A worker at the medical centre performed CPR but he could not be saved and Darweish died at the scene.<\/p>\n

Two 15 and 16-year-old boys have been charged with his murder.<\/p>\n

\"Flowers<\/p>\n

Flowers were left by mourners near the site of an alleged stabbing at Craigieburn, in Melbourne’s outer north, this week. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

The pair appeared briefly in a children’s court on Friday afternoon, where it was revealed the 16-year-old accused was on bail at the time of the fatal ambush.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the court heard it was the 15-year-old’s first time in custody, and that he was concerned about being placed with some young people already being held on remand.<\/p>\n

Charge sheets allege the pair stole a grey Toyota Corolla on Wednesday, with the 16-year-old also charged with setting the car on fire at Oaklands Junction soon after Darweish’s death.<\/p>\n

Both teenagers were remanded in custody and will return to court for a committal hearing in November.<\/p>\n

\"Northern<\/p>\n

A staff member at the Craigieburn Community Hospital found a 15-year-old boy with stab wounds in the hospital car park on Wednesday night. (ABC News: Andi Yu)<\/p>\n

The court heard homicide detectives will have until early October to prepare their brief of evidence.<\/p>\n

Tributes for Darweish continued to grow outside the hospital on Friday, where his friends came to lay flowers and pictures of the teenager, who attended Mount Ridley P-12 College in Craigieburn.<\/p>\n

A fundraiser for the slain teenager’s family had raised almost $45,000 by Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

At a media conference this morning, Victorian Attorney-General Sonya Kilkenny said the boy’s death was an “unimaginable tragedy” for his family and community.<\/p>\n

Ms Kilkenny said the government’s Violence Reduction Unit was working with families and schools to prevent “any potential threats from retaliation”.<\/p>\n

“These are serious matters and they absolutely deserve serious consequences. We owe that to the victim, the young boy,” she said.<\/p>\n

“We owe it to his family and we owe it to the community that there will be serious consequences.<\/p>\n

“You know, children aren’t born carrying knives. It’s a choice they make and there needs to be consequences for that choice.”<\/p>\n

\"Woman<\/p>\n

Victoria’s Attorney-General Sonya Kilkenny knife crime prevention is a priority for the state government. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Ms Kilkenny said preventing knife crime in the first place was also important.<\/p>\n

A close friend of Darweish previously told the ABC he witnessed the incident and tried to save him.<\/p>\n

“He just didn’t deserve this,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I’m just trying to not think about it too much. I’ve kept him in my prayers,” another friend said.<\/p>\n

Detectives have also charged a 20-year-old Beveridge man in connection with Darweish’s death with criminal damage by fire.<\/p>\n

He was bailed to appear at the Broadmeadows Magistrates Court in December.<\/p>\n

A 15-year-old girl is also facing charges of affray and theft of a motor vehicle.<\/p>\n

She will return to court at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old boy charged with the murder of another boy outside a hospital in Melbourne’s north was on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[368472,368474,43,44,27777,41,39,42,40,2024,368473],"class_list":["post-777209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-craigieburn-community-hospital","tag-craigieburn-stabbing","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-stabbing","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-victoria-police","tag-victorian-crime-stoppers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777209","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=777209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}