A 23-year-old man has been released on bail until he is sentenced for causing the death of a teenager who appeared to fall from a moving car in a laneway near his home in Perth's north.
Abdul-Rahim Popal was 16 when he died on November 7, 2020, when he hit his head on the ground after a car he was standing next to in Portslade Lane in Clarkson, sped off.
CCTV footage of the incident showed the teenager briefly hanging onto the car as it drove away, before he lost his grip and fell.
He died at the scene.
Hours later police raided a house in Ocean Reef and found the car involved in the incident, before charging Kai Dylan Best.
He had been due to face a trial in the Supreme Court today on a manslaughter charge, but at the start of proceedings, prosecutors accepted his guilty plea to the lesser charge of dangerous driving occasioning death.
Best was again released on bail until he faces a sentencing hearing in August.
Members of Abdul-Rahim's family were in court for the guilty plea and his mother Laila McPherson said outside she would have liked the trial to proceed so the family could have heard all the evidence.
"As a mum it's terrible. I don't have any feelings either way, I lost a child that's all I can say," she said.
Ms McPherson said while she hopes Best will be jailed, she does not believe that will achieve justice for her family.
"What I feel would be a just outcome is not something that our law will allow," she said.
