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NASHVILLE — When she was just 16, Cyntoia Brown climbed into a pickup truck with a stranger, drove to his home, got into his bed — then shot him in the back of the head with a .40-caliber handgun as he lay naked beside her. Brown, now 28, is serving a life sentence at the Tennessee Prison for Women for the murder of Johnny Mitchell Allen, a 43-year-old Nashville real estate agent.

HE claims to remember little about his role in three brutal Sydney street attacks because he was high on drugs and alcohol but he will have plenty of time to contemplate his crimes in prison. The teenager, now 18, who cannot be named because he was a juvenile at the time of the offences, was yesterday sentenced to 12 years jail in the NSW Supreme Court for the stomping murder of a chef, assaulting a cyclist and the violent robbery of actress Virginia Gay in June 2008. Before being sentenced, the teenager smirked and laughed with onlooking friends as he...