Prosecutor tells jury ‘it is not the state’s case’ the alleged murder was racially motivated

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A man accused of swinging the weapon that killed an Indigenous teenager says the dead boy stabbed him before a mate allegedly struck the fatal blows, with a court told the attack wasn’t racially motivated.

Cassius Turvey, a 15-year-old Noongar Yamatji boy, died in hospital 10 days after he was allegedly struck in the head with a metal pole in Perth’s eastern suburbs on 13 October, 2022.