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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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/feb/17/trial-over-alleged-of-cassius-turvey-hears-of-previous-attack-on-teenage-boy-ntwnfb