Victim’s father says community ‘struggling a lot’ as Victorian government yet to release report delivered eight months ago by expert group

On a Saturday evening last spring, two boys stepped off a bus in Melbourne’s outer west just before 8pm. They never made it home.

The alleged double murder of the two children – 12-year-old Chol Achiek and his friend 15-year-old Dau Akueng – reignited a fierce debate over solutions to curb Victoria’s youth gang violence.

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