Cassius Turvey released from hospital only to be admitted hours later and die from head injuries, murder trial told

Indigenous teenager re-admitted to hospital after suffering seizures and ‘in a bad way’, doctor tells court

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An Indigenous teenager with head injuries was released from a hospital only to be re-admitted hours later in a worse condition, which led to his death, a murder trial has been told.

Cassius Turvey, a 15-year-old Noongar Yamatji boy, died 10 days after prosecutors said he was allegedly chased, knocked to the ground and “deliberately struck to the head” with a metal pole in Perth’s eastern suburbs on 13 October 2022.

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