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Cassius Turvey murder trial: WA Supreme Court releases footage of teen in minutes before alleged murder [Video]

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this story contains images of people who have died

An Indigenous teenager was spotted holding his bloody head after being chased into bushland by two men with metal poles, a murder trial has been told.

Cassius Turvey, a 15-year-old Noongar Yamatji boy, died in hospital 10 days after prosecutors say he was chased, knocked to the ground and “deliberately struck to the head” in Perth’s eastern suburbs on October 13, 2022.

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WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Video shows Cassius Turvey minutes before alleged murder.

Aleesha Louise Gilmore, 23, her boyfriend Jack Steven James Brearley, 23, and his mates Brodie Lee Palmer, 29 and Mitchell Colin Forth, 26, are on trial in the West Australian Supreme Court charged with murdering Cassius.

Vision of Cassius on a bus with friends only minutes before the alleged murder was …

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