GPS tracking ‘wouldn’t have stopped me’ committing crimes, says former Queensland youth offender

GPS trackers will do nothing to stop some teenagers committing crimes, a former youth offender has told the ABC.

This week Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced trials of GPS tracking devices as a bail condition for repeat youth offenders, as part of a raft of measures aimed at tackling youth crime.

The moves were condemned as a “knee-jerk” response by former Northern Territory youth detention royal commissioner Mick Gooda and prisoner advocate Debbie Kilroy.

Reformed youth offender Ben, 19, (whose name has been changed for legal…