‘I was just thinking, like ... ‘this is f--ked,’ teenager tells court when asked why he was laughing

A 17-year-old boy accused of killing doctor Ash Gordon in Doncaster has explained why he was laughing and filming a video in the aftermath of the alleged murder.

Ash Gordon was allegedly murdered by a teen who went on to laugh as he and a co-offender burnt their clothes.

A teenager accused of killing Melbourne doctor Ash Gordon has admitted filming and laughing as he and a friend burned the clothes they were wearing on the night of the alleged murder.

The 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named due to his age, is standing trial in the Supreme Court, having pleaded not guilty to murdering Dr Gordon, 33, near his Doncaster home last January.

The teen has pleaded not guilty to murdering Dr Gordon.

He has admitted to two counts of aggravated burglary of the GP’s home but claims he acted in self-defence when he stabbed Dr Gordon six times during a confrontation shortly after the break-in.

Giving evidence on Wednesday, the teenager admitted he filmed and laughed as his co-offender — who also broke into Dr Gordon’s home — made a masturbating gesture while the pair torched their clothing from the night of the alleged murder.

Asked by his lawyer why he laughed, the accused said he was “stressed out” about “my whole life and everything”.

“I was just thinking, like ... ‘this is f--ked’,” he said.

“When you’re stressed out you could either cry or laugh — and I laughed.”

The jury was earlier told Dr Gordon had been woken in the early hours of January 13 last year after the boy and three others broke into his Sargent Street home.

He gave chase in his car before being stabbed during an alleged scuffle in a nearby driveway.

On Wednesday, the accused told the jury Dr Gordon tried to hit him with his car as he ran from the scene, before cornering him in the driveway.

“There’s no point running now,” the teen claimed Dr Gordon said.

“I was like ‘I’m not going to run, bro’,” the accused said, adding he put his hands up to gesture he wouldn’t try to escape.

The teen said he pulled a knife out of his pocket, held it out and warned: “Don’t come close, bro. I’ve got a knife.”

“I said, ‘I don’t want to do this’ ... I repeated it a couple of times,” he told the court.

He claimed Dr Gordon smirked at him, and that he believed the doctor was in a “roid rage” after earlier seeing vials of steroids in his garage.

“I was thinking ‘this guy’s crazy’,” he said.

“He was bouncing around ... he looked like he was revving himself up.

“Then he put his head down and then rushed at me like an NFL player.”

The teen alleged Dr Gordon shoulder-charged him, slamming him into a garage door, before he stabbed the doctor multiple times.

Under questioning from his lawyer, the teen denied he intended to kill or seriously hurt Dr Gordon, instead claiming he was just trying to “get him off me”.

Asked what he thought would happen if he couldn’t get away, the teen said: “I thought he was going to try and kill me.”

“I felt terrified and I thought he might try go for the knife or he was going to slam me to the ground, start, like, kicking me in the head, slam my head into the concrete or, like, choke me out,” he said.

He told the jury his friends returned to the scene after the stabbing, with one of them kicking the injured doctor in the face before the group fled.

They regrouped nearby, where the accused admitted he told the others “n--ger’s had just stabbed a guy,” referring to himself.

He said he later discussed fleeing to the Gold Coast and then Papua New Guinea with one of the other teens, but claimed he never seriously considered the plan.

Under cross-examination, he denied threatening to kill another boy involved in the burglary if he told anyone what had happened.

He also denied fleeing because he thought he’d committed murder, claiming he fled because he didn’t think police would believe his self-defence claim.

The trial continues.

Originally published as ‘I was just thinking, like ... ‘this is f--ked,’ teenager tells court when asked why he was laughing