<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><strong><span>WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this story contains an image of a person who is deceased.</span></strong></em></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A murder-accused man who blamed his mate for an </span><a><span>Indigenous teenager's death</span></a><span> has had his version of events dismantled while giving evidence in his defence.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Jack Steven James Brearley, 24, told a jury that prosecutors had it wrong and he didn't strike Cassius Turvey in the head with a metal pole in Perth's eastern suburbs on October 13, 2022.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/tamworth-mystery-death-four-decades-of-torment-after-teens-train-track-death/d5fb62af-ce4c-4084-bc86-4cc6235cbdff" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Four decades of torment after teen's train track death</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He said his co-accused, Brodie Lee Palmer, 29, swung the blows that led to the 15-year-old Noongar Yamatji boy's death in hospital 10 days later after taking the stand yesterday.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But he agreed today during cross-examination by Palmer's lawyer, Christian Porter, that there were multiple inconsistencies with his defence story and that was a problem.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>They relate to his assertion that he had a physical altercation with only one person on the day of the incident and that person was Cassius.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/western-australia-cassius-turvey-trial-accused-murderer-attempt-to-blame-mate-questioned/83f6b933-2868-4ffd-8c02-4cbd840b2f53" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Brearley's evidence was that Cassius was wearing a green shirt and the teen had slashed him with a knife during a scuffle in the bush.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>But Porter took him to previous statements to police where he said the person with the knife was a "big Kiwi fella" with a blonde rat's tail hair style and wearing a grey shirt.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Another was his evidence that he only punched Cassius twice in the head and the blows caused a cut to the teen's eyebrow area.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Brearley agreed multiple witnesses involved in Cassius's medical treatment hadn't seen or recorded the injury.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Brearley's descriptions to the jury and police of the location near or in a creek where he said his fight with Cassius happened was also shown to be inconsistent.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Porter said a further problem for Brearley was the "sheer weight of eyewitness evidence" that a "skinny man" caused Cassius's fatal injuries.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/queensland-hervey-bay-teegan-walker-living-in-fear-alleged-arson/1a87afc5-e1a7-4097-affa-4d4ec3a16d8d" rel="" target="_blank" title=""><strong><span>Young mum living in fear after months of menacing calls, car bombing</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Evidence about you hitting Cassius with a pole," he told the West Australian Supreme Court.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Brearley: "That is a problem for them, but it's not what happened."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Porter: "You are lying through your teeth."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Brearley: "I disagree."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Brearley's girlfriend Aleesha Louise Gilmore, 23, and one of his co-workers Mitchell Colin Forth, 26, are also on trial, charged with murdering Cassius.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Prosecutors allege Brearley chased Cassius down and deliberately struck him in the head with a metal shopping trolley pole while he was "hunting for kids" because somebody had smashed his car windows.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>They allege Forth, Palmer and Gilmore helped him and knew his intent before the incident.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The case continues.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>For 24/7 crisis support run by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, contact 13YARN (13 92 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