{"id":6806,"date":"2026-05-07T12:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/6806\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:40:14","slug":"two-men-found-guilty-of-murdering-alice-springs-teenager-youth-found-guilty-of-violent-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/6806\/","title":{"rendered":"Two men found guilty of murdering Alice Springs teenager, youth found guilty of violent act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Two men have been found guilty of murdering 19-year-old Yiel Deng Gatluak, whose body was found east of Alice Springs on New Year\u2019s Day in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Late today, a Northern Territory Supreme Court jury found Koang Wuordol and Guandong Guandong guilty of murder after more than five weeks of evidence and submissions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Their co-accused \u2014 a teenage boy who cannot be named for legal reasons \u2014 was found not guilty of murder and manslaughter, but guilty of the lesser alternative offence of violent act causing death.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An unsealed road in central Australia landscape.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e2fb6663259b3478a654249b23faf6ba.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Yiel Gatluak was found dead on Undoolya Road east of Alice Springs on New Year&#8217;s Day 2024. (ABC News: Xavier Martin)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mr Gatluak was found dead on Undoolya Road, about 10 kilometres east of Alice Springs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The trial heard Mr Gatluak was assaulted by the three co-accused, after being driven there in a Ford Ranger in the early hours of New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Crown argued the accused had entered an agreement to cause him serious harm, while defence lawyers argued the prosecution had not proven the intent required for murder.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a female judge sitting in chair\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ba5cb7fde0984417799374ea69fd7274.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Jenny Blokland presided over the case during \u201cfive-and-a-half long weeks\u201d. (ABC News: Michael Donnelly)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Justice Jenny Blokland told jurors that issue was central to their decision before they retired yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">After the verdicts were delivered this afternoon, Justice Blokland thanked the jury for their service, saying it had been \u201cfive-and-a-half long weeks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The case will return to court for sentencing submissions on July 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been found guilty of murdering 19-year-old Yiel Deng Gatluak, whose body was found east of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1518,8278,22,21,8280,8279,2770,8282,8283,8281,8284],"class_list":{"0":"post-6806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-alice-springs","9":"tag-alice-springs-murder","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-austrlia","12":"tag-body-alice-springs","13":"tag-galtluak","14":"tag-murder","15":"tag-true-crime","16":"tag-verdict","17":"tag-verdict-murder-trial","18":"tag-violent-act"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}