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The boy, now 15, had stabbed his father with a fruit knife while the man was crouched over doing laundry
He was angry that his father had falsely accused him of throwing away the detergent scoop
He pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder
A psychiatrist found that the boy's autistic spectrum disorder did not have causal or contributory link to his crime