Perth teenager charged with murdering his mother and attempting to kill sister

A 16-year-old boy has been charged in Perth after police say his mother was killed and his younger sister was seriously injured in an incident at a home in Bentley, in the city’s south-east.

According to a monitored public feed based on reporting from The Guardian World, police were called to the property on Tuesday morning and found a woman dead inside the home. A girl was also discovered seriously injured on a nearby highway after she managed to flee and seek help.

The teenager was charged on Wednesday with one count of murder and one count of attempting to unlawfully kill. The feed summary says police allege he stabbed his mother with a knife and attacked his little sister before she escaped.

Details remain limited in the public feed, but the case has prompted a murder charge and a separate charge linked to the alleged attempt on the girl’s life. No further information about the victims’ conditions, the family, or the circumstances of the attack was included in the feed summary.

This report is based on a monitored public feed and is attributed to The Guardian World.

Source: The Guardian World - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/22/perth-bentley-teenage-boy-charged-murder-mother-attempting-to-kill-sister-ntwnfb