Witness tells trial the group accused of murdering WA boy was ‘a little bit drunk’ and armed themselves with weapons before the incident

An Indigenous teenager’s alleged killers were drunk, rowdy and packing weapons, a witness has said before admitting he lied under oath at a murder trial.

Cassius Turvey, 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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