Boy sentenced to seven years' jail over crash that killed grandmother

Key points

• A teenager who killed a grandmother in a stolen car crash north of Brisbane has been sentenced to seven and a half years in jail. Rosemary Franzidis, 69, died at the scene after the stolen Audi, travelling at 136km/h, struck her car at a Murrumba Downs intersection.
• The Brisbane Supreme Court heard the then 16-year-old had taken drugs before a series of violent offences, including attempted armed robbery using a replica firearm.
• Justice Kerri Mellifont described his actions as truly awful.