Boy killer copies relative who murdered seven

A TEENAGE relative of a notorious Australian serial killer has admitted axing a friend to death and leaving the body in the same forest where his relative killed seven backpackers.

The boy, who cannot be named because he was a juvenile at the time of the killing, pleaded guilty in a Sydney court to killing 17-year-old David Auchterlonie. David’s battered body was found last year in the remote Belanglo State Forest south-west of Sydney.

His killer is a relative of Ivan Milat, who is serving a life sentence for murdering seven young backpackers between 1989 and 1992.