Two men aged 24 and 29 was sentenced this Thursday for murdering Cassius, an Aboriginal teenager aged 15 in the suburbs of Perth, Australia.
An attack of rare violence. Two people were convicted this Thursday, May 8 for the murder of an Aboriginal schoolboy aged 15, who died of his skull injuries in October 2022, reports the BBC.
The young Cassius Turvey was brutally attacked in October 2022, in the suburbs of Perth by several men. The group threw on the ground and struck at least twice to the Cassius head with a short metal post, which caused it a cerebral hemorrhage, according to the prosecutors.
If four people were charged, only two men were convicted: Jack Steven James Brearley, 24, and Brodie Lee Palmer, 29, after a trial that lasted 12 weeks.
The group of attackers was “looking for children”
At the hospital for several days, one of the culprits, Jack Steven James Brearley Brearley was filmed in the process of boasting of having beaten the child.
“He was lying in the field and I hit him with a trolley bar that he learned his lesson,” he said during a telephone call broadcast during the trial.
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According to the prosecutors, the group of attackers was “looking for children” because someone had damaged the windows of one of the condemned, Jack Steven James Brearley.
However, there is no indication that Cassius was involved in damaging the windows of the culprit’s car. The young person was simply part of a host of children who were faced with this group of men.
Their sentence not yet known
The jury finally declared that the two men were responsible for the murder, and Forth guilty of manslaughter. Regarding the required sentence, the two assassins must return to court on June 26 at the bar.
The mother of the young schoolboy, Mechelle Turvey, notably wanted to thank the witnesses to the trial, most of whom were “young children marked for life”.
“I would like to thank all of Australia, the people who know us, for their love and their support,” she added. “He was funny. He liked to pose,” said Mechelle Turvey to the BBC, showing photos of Cassius.
Shortly after his assassination in 2022, several evenings in honor of Cassius had taken place in the United States and New Zealand.
