Joanna Menagh

Four climate activists arrested outside the Perth home of Woodside boss Meg O'Neill had planned to damage her fence and garage door with paint as part of a "publicity stunt", the Perth Magistrates Court hears.

The death of Perth schoolboy Cassius Turvey will be thrust back into the spotlight today with the scheduled start of the trial of his four alleged murderers in WA's Supreme Court.

The death of Perth schoolboy Cassius Turvey was "the end point of a complex series of events" that had "nothing to do with him", WA's Supreme Court is told at the start of the trial of the four people accused of his murder.

Prosecutors make it clear they believe the motive for the alleged murder of Perth schoolboy Cassius Turvey was not racism.

The WA Supreme Court hears testimony from the teenager at the centre of a "love triangle" that sparked a series of events ending in the alleged murder of Perth schoolboy Cassius Turvey.

The brother of one of four people alleged to have murdered 15-year-old Cassius Turvey tells a court he saw one of the accused with weapons, just before the teenager was struck over the head with a metal pole.

The teenager, who was 15 at the time and can't be identified, tells a Perth court he was stabbed in October 2022, four days before Cassius Turvey was hit with a metal pole and chased into bushland.

The mother of one of the four people accused of murdering Perth schoolboy Cassius Turvey tells the Supreme Court one of them told her he had "hit a kid with a trolley pole".

A court hears one of the four people accused of murdering Cassius Turvey initially told police he had been "stressed" in the days leading up to the alleged attack and had acted in self-defence. 

Former Collingwood player Shannon Cox pleads guilty in a Perth court to manslaughter over the crash in WA's outback in which two women, aged in their 80s, both died.