Group was ‘drunk, rowdy’ before WA teenager Cassius Turvey allegedly murdered, court hears

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

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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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