One of the men accused of murdering an Indigenous teenager told police the boy cried and pleaded with him to stop punching him, while claiming his actions were in self-defence, a jury has heard.
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" with a metal pole in Perth's eastern suburbs on October 13, 2022.
