Man accused of bashing Cassius Turvey to death makes bombshell claims

A man accused of murdering an Indigenous teenager with a metal pole has told a jury it was his mate who hit the boy and that he only punched him.

Cassius Turvey, a 15-year-old Noongar Yamatji boy, died 10 days after prosecutors say he was chased down and 'deliberately struck to the head' with a metal pole in Perth's eastern suburbs on October 13, 2022.

Aleesha Louise Gilmore, 23, her boyfriend Jack Steven James Brearley, 24, and his friends Brodie Lee Palmer, 29, and Mitchell Colin Forth, 26, are on trial for the murder of Cassius.

Giving evidence in his own defence, Brearley said he chased Cassius towards a creek and after the teen slowed down and he trippe...
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