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Murder trial told teen hit with shopping trolley pole

A jury has heard paramedics retreated to get police back-up after seeing a knife near a bashed teen. (Richard Wainwright/AAP PHOTOS)

A man accused of murdering an Indigenous teenager told his girlfriend's mother he had twice hit a boy with a shopping trolley pole, a court has been told.

Cassius Turvey, a 15-year-old Noongar Yamatji boy, died in hospital 10 days after prosecutors say he was chased, knocked to the ground and "deliberately struck to the head" in Perth's eastern suburbs on October 13, 2022.

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