Trial over alleged murder of Cassius Turvey hears of previous attack on another teenage boy
Source: The Guardian | Published: February 17, 2025, 7:24 a.m.
Teen witness tells court of separate attack by two defendants in the days before the Indigenous teen was killed
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A teenage boy was allegedly punched in the face, stabbed and stomped on before he was abducted by some of the men accused of murdering Cassius Turvey, a court has heard.
Cassius, a 15-year-old Noongar Yamatji boy, died in hospital 10 days after prosecutors say he was chased down, knocked to the ground and “deliberately struck to the head with a metal pole” in Perth’s eastern suburbs on 13 October 2022.
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