Teen pleads not guilty to stabbing murder of mother’s partner at Baringa in 2022

Paramedics attending the alleged stabbing murder of a man by his partner’s 16-year-old child have told a Brisbane court resuscitation was not an option when they arrived.

Forensics police on the scene at Baringa in September 2022. Picture: Patrick Woods.

A child accused of murdering his mother’s partner was “rocking backwards and forwards” and talking to himself according to paramedics who arrived at the Sunshine Coast home before police to discover the alleged victim on the kitchen floor surrounded by a “massive amount of blood”

The then 16-year-old has pleaded not guilty to murder with the Crown alleging he fatally stabbed the 42-year-old man 35 times late on September 7, 2022.

Paramedics told the Brisbane Supreme Court that no attempts were made to resuscitate the man due to the amount of blood loss and the severity of his injuries.

The decision was made within minutes of the paramedics arriving at the youth’s Baringa home, his trial heard.

Paramedic Chris Kirby along with his partner were the first paramedics on the scene with a youth, which the Crown say was the defendant, waving them down outside.

The teenage boy has pleaded not guilty of the 42-year-old man's murder.

“He said something along the lines of ‘hurry up he’s bleeding out’,” Mr Kirby said.

Despite being called to a purported cardiac arrest Mr Kirby said they soon realised that wasn’t the case.

“So I asked the question, who did this, and where’s the knife,” he told the jury.

“And somebody replied ‘it was the teenage boy’.”

Pointing to her client, barrister Charlotte Smith asked Mr Kirby whether that was the boy he saw outside waving them down.

“I can’t say to that I’m sorry,” he said.

Paramedic Benjamin Bowcock was in the second team that arrived that night.

He said he located a knife about 1.5 metres from the patient and noticed a teenager sitting on a nearby couch with an adult female “rocking backwards and forwards”.

Mr Bowcock later informed them that the adult male was dead and police would be attending.

“The older teenage male said to his mother ‘I love you’ and he also said to her, something to the effect of ‘we weren’t safe, he would have killed us or killed you’.

“He was crying, he appeared distraught essentially … he did appear to be having a conversation with his mother and talking to himself.”

He said the paramedics considered whether to sedate the boy but ultimately decided against it.

His partner Daniel Hirsimaki said he was concerned about their safety.

“I noticed that there was a massive amount of blood that was in the kitchen, around the patient’s legs area,” he said.

“I suspected that it was an assault and someone had been killed, and I was concerned for our safety that we weren’t sure who had done this.”

He said the man in the kitchen was flatlining and had a large “ central, penetrating chest wound”.

“We had a quick team discussion and we decided that because of the amount of blood that was lost, the significance of his injury … that he had non-survivable injuries and that’s why we didn’t start resuscitation efforts.

Mr Hirsimaki said the teenage boy in the house said “what have I done”.

Police arrived and the paramedics were asked to leave the home, he said.

The trial continues before Justice Frances Williams.

Originally published as Teen pleads not guilty to stabbing murder of mother’s partner at Baringa in 2022