Cassius Turvey murder trial: Footage of Indigenous teen’s last few moments played in court

Footage of Cassius Turvey’s last few moments before he was chased into bushland then brutally bashed with a metal pole has been played during the trial of his accused killers.

The CCTV, from Midland train station, shows the 15-year-old dressed in his Swan View High School uniform getting off the bus then walking inside the facility as his friends and other teens wait outside.

It then shows the Indigenous teen enter the bathroom then leave to get on the number 315 bus which WA’s Supreme Court has been told was filled with teenagers on their way to watch a fight in Middle Swan that had been organised on social media on October 13, 2022.

Roughly 20 minutes later, and 10 minutes after he got off the bus at 4.05pm, Cassius was attacked.

He was rushed to hospital and was initially stable but his injuries worsened over the next few days. He died ten days later.

Jack Brearley, Aleesha Gilmore, Brodie Palmer and Mitchell Forth are on trial charged with the teen’s murder with prosecutors alleging Mr Brearley was the one who struck the 15-year-old after he chased him into bushland.

But Mr Brearley has claimed, through his lawyer Simon Watters, it was his co-accused Mr Palmer that inflicted the fatal blows.

The trial has been told the day before the attack, Mr Brearley’s car windows had been smashed with the four accused intent on finding those responsible.

And on the day of the assault on Cassius, Ms Gilmore’s younger brother had been getting threats from two teenager boys who were brothers, with a fight then eventually organised to take place at an oval in Middle Swan and that at some point threats had been made to damage the Gilmore home.

On the opening day of the trial, Prosecutor Ben Stanwix SC told the jury that Cassius died as a result of a complex “series of events that had nothing to do with him” which included the organised fight on October 13.

He said roughly 19 teenagers had caught a bus to the oval to watch a fight and that shortly after they got off the bus, a black ute containing Mr Palmer, Mr Forth and Mr Brearley, who had armed themselves with knuckle dusters and metal trolley poles, turned up.

Mr Stanwix said Mr Brearley got out of the car and swung a metal pole at a teen but missed. He then allegedly attacked one of the teens by pushing him to the ground and Mr Forth allegedly stole his crutches and hat.

The group of teens began to disperse with many running to the creek and bushland for cover with Mr Brearley and Mr Palmer allegedly chasing them.

Mr Brearley then allegedly hit Cassius with the pole as he lay on the ground.

Earlier, the trial was also shown CCTV from Mr Palmer’s Parkerville home showing the four accused chatting, drinking and standing around in the hours before the attack as well as footage from the Gilmore’s home before the alleged attack.

The trial continues.