"I think I stabbed the guy you were fighting," the teen allegedly said. That included a remark he is alleged to have made in the car to another person as they were driving away. Ms Christensen also told the court part of the evidence would include accounts from other witnesses about what the boy told them after the fight. 'I think I stabbed the guy you were fighting' The jury was told it is the Crown's case that it was during this lull that the accused boy delivered the fatal wounds. She said she would show the people involved in the initial attack then retreated to their car, retrieving garden tools, which they used to smash up the victim's car. Ms Christensen said her case was that, in that time, the occupants of one car descended on the two victims, beating them until someone emerged from their car saying he had a machete. The jury heard CCTV footage from across the road from the skate park showed that from the time the first of three cars arrived for the organised fight, the brawl lasted only a bit over two minutes. Prosecutor Rebecca Christensen told the court no one saw the alleged murder, meaning the case would rely on circumstantial evidence, putting the accused boy at the scene, with a knife and the opportunity to carry out the stabbing.
Yesterday, the jury heard the 18-year-old was stabbed six times, and that two of the wounds were about 12 centimetres deep. The jury heard evidence that 12 people were involved in the fight, which ended in one man's death. She said when her brother-in-law told her what had happened, she dropped the phone.īoth parents said it was out of character for their son to have left the house without telling them. "I started calling phone and he wasn't picking up and I knew something was wrong," she said. The man's mother said when she had initially heard her son was in trouble she had tried to contact him. "I stayed there for the next 12 hours staring down at the area where was." The father went to the scene where police told him that his son had died.
His father said he thought he heard his son going downstairs in his boxing shoes later in the night, but heard nothing more until he was woken by a call from his brother to say their sons had been in a fight.
The pair discussed how he should not stay up too long because their family was planning to take their "snow" dog to the snow at Corin Forrest the next day. His father described how he had last spoken to his son about 11pm, saying the 18-year-old had been warming himself by the heater and was on the PlayStation. The court heard how the young man had been a keen boxer and had trained in a gym and at home in the garage. The man had driven his cousin and two of his friends to the Weston Creek Skate Park for the organised fight. The parents of the 18-year-old today described the last time they saw their son and how they learned of his death, in police interviews played to the jury. Parents describe hearing of their son's death
A boy, who was 15 at the time, is on trial for murder over the 18-year-old's death and has pleaded not guilty.īut the teenager has pleaded guilty to stabbing the victim's 16-year-old cousin, who survived his injuries.Īll three males were involved in a fight, involving about 12 people, that was sparked after two of those present had a disagreement on Snapchat.