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 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.
By Aaron Bunch
February 17, 2025 — 5.41pm
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.
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 October 13, 2022.
Jack Steven James Brearley, 23, his then-girlfriend Aleesha Louise Gilmore, 23, and their mates Brodie Lee Palmer, 29 and Mitchell Colin Forth, 26, are on trial in the WA Supreme Court for Cassius’ murder.
Prosecutor Ben Stanwix said that in the days before Cassius was fatally injured, Brealey, Forth and another man, Ethan Robert MacKenzie, 20, allegedly attacked another 15-year-old boy.
The teenager, now 17, told the Perth court on Monday he was playing with friends in a park when a car pulled up and the three men got out.
“I ran and tried to hide … I was fearful of who they were … Coming to hurt us, so I just ran,” he told the jury.
The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said he jumped numerous house fences and hid beside a home in his bid to escape the trio, but they found him.
“I got punched in the face and I fell over and I got stomped on, and then I got pulled up by someone and I was standing there and I remember a knife was pulled out,” he said.
“I didn’t realise I had been stabbed. I was not really processing it.
“I felt blood and looked down and saw I had a gash on my stomach.”
He said he was “dragged down the road” and heard someone say: “This is why you don’t bash my younger brother” and “Where are your boys at?”
“They were saying like don’t run or we’ll kill you,” he said, adding one of the trio also smashed his feet and took his shoes.
“Aleesha (Gilmore) got out of the car and said ‘What are you doing to this poor kid’.”
The teen said he was “forced” into the back of a car with Gilmore and four others, where some of the occupants recognised him
“One of them was wearing a pink mask and another was wearing a black mask … a ski mask,” he said.
“I was confused and I didn’t really know what was going on and Jack was still asking like ‘where are your boys?’”
The court heard Brearley drove the car and Forth sat in the front passenger seat, with the third alleged assailant in the back seat with the witness and the others.
“They were arguing about I was not who they were after,” he said.
The boy said he was driven to Gilmore’s house.
He said he was told to take a shower, which he did, before being given a bandaid and disinfectant for his wound, fresh clothes, shoes and a Nintendo Switch “because they felt bad”.
“Aleesha was saying we need to … let your mum know or something, and I was like no … she found my sister’s Facebook … and she messaged …. and I do remember her taking a picture and saying something like ‘he’s alright’,” he said, adding he was dropped off at his home after about two hours.
MacKenzie is also on trial but not for the murder charge. He has pleaded not guilty to unlawfully detaining and assaulting the boy on October 9, 2022.
The trial continues.
AAP
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