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Mitchell Forth, Jack Brearley and Brodie Palmer. Picture: Supplied

Thugs, drugs and absent mothers: Behind the ‘monsters’ who killed Cassius Turvey

Mechelle Turvey branded them monsters for brutally and violently killing her son. But the truth was much more complex, said the judge who handed them life sentences on Friday.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt

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Cassius Turvey. Inset: Brodie Palmer (bottom), Jack Brearley (top), who are being sentenced for murder over Cassius’ death.

Cassius Turvey’s ‘vigilante’ killers face life in prison for ‘horrendous’ crime

The “sheer rage and uncontrollable violence” of the assault on the innocent schoolboy sent shockwaves through Australia. On Friday, punishments were meted out.

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Mechelle Turvey and Cassius Turvey. Homepage image, Cassius Turvey murder trial sentencing. Pictures: Rebecca Peppiatt/Supplied

‘My son was racially targeted’: Cassius Turvey’s mother confronts killers in court

Mechelle Turvey told a Perth court her son’s death was “racially motivated” and any other explanation would leave “many Australians scratching their heads”.

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Jay Joseph Mills, inset, and CCTV released by police after the assault at a skatepark in Midvale in 2022.

Cassius Turvey’s brother spared more jail time for skate park assault

Jay Mills stole a motorbike and punched a teenager at a skate park on Australia Day in 2022, breaking his jaw in two places.

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Aleesha Gilmore was found innocent of murder.

Perth woman’s family fear retribution despite not guilty verdict in murder trial

Aleesha Gilmore was found innocent of the murder of schoolboy Cassius Turvey on Thursday. However, she still faces more jail time over her involvement in a series of assaults and a kidnapping in the days before Cassius was attacked.

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Jack Brearley (top) and Brodie Palmer (bottom) have been found guilty of murdering 15-year-old schoolboy Cassius Turvey (main). Pictures: Supplied

Cassius Turvey identified his attackers in the days before he died, mum says

Jack Brearley, 24, and Brodie Palmer, 29, have been found guilty of the murder of Indigenous schoolboy Cassius Turvey at the end of a three-month trial.

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Cassius Turvey died after he was bashed in Middle Swan in October 2022.

Cassius Turvey murder trial jury retires to deliberate verdicts

A jury has started deliberating in a trial for four people accused of murdering an Indigenous teenager after he was allegedly attacked with a metal pole.

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Four people are on trial in the Supreme Court of WA over the murder of Perth schoolboy Cassius Turvey.

‘Lucky he came, he saved you’, Cassius Turvey’s murder trial told

One of the men accused of murdering Cassius Turvey “saved” the Indigenous teenager as he was being attacked by a co-accused, a jury has heard.

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Brodie Palmer, 29, is accused of murder.

‘Sickening’: Perth man accused of murder vomits at sight of schoolboy’s injuries

Brodie Palmer is accused of being involved in the bashing of Cassius Turvey two years ago. On Monday, his murder trial was shown his first interviews with police.

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Four people are on trial in the Supreme Court of WA over the murder of Perth schoolboy Cassius Turvey.

‘I probably would have killed the kid’: Accused killer’s police interview played in Cassius Turvey murder trial

Jack Brearley was arrested the day after Cassius was hospitalised with a serious head injury.

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