The prosecutor said CCTV images recorded about 4.55am captured the two teenagers, and two other teenage boys who were at the party, going back to Gordon’s house.
Gordon’s parents, Glen and Catherine Gordon, arrive at court along with other family members on Thursday.Credit: Justin McManus
The court heard they covered their faces with balaclavas or masks. Two of the boys wore gloves, and all four took off their shoes before breaking back into the house. When the teenagers re-entered the house a short time later, one of the teenagers yelled to the other three “get out” before they heard Gordon say “hello boys”, the court was told.
The four teenagers had then fled as Gordon chased them on foot.
The court was told there was a discussion between Gordon and his housemate about which of them should call the police, and the doctor replied: “We’ll call them in a sec. We need to get our stuff back.”
Standing then rang triple zero while Gordon chased the group of intruders down the street.
Gordon then got into his Mercedes and began driving around looking for the teens, the court heard. When he spotted three of them, he pulled his car up quickly, before chasing the accused teenager into a driveway of a house a few blocks away.
The doctor is alleged to have said, “There’s no point running, the cops are on their way,” before trying to restrain the boy.
Churchill said it is the prosecution’s case that Gordon was intent on apprehending the teenager until police arrived.
The court heard an altercation unfolded in which the teenager producing a knife and slashed and stabbed Gordon several times. An autopsy found six deep stab wounds on Gordon’s body.
Churchill said one of the stab wounds fatally penetrated Gordon’s aorta, injuring his heart and lung. She said the prosecution would argue the accused intended to kill Gordon or cause serious injury to him during the altercation.
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Gordon’s body was later found on the side of the road. The court was told another teenager allegedly hit the doctor in the face as he lay fatally wounded and bloodied on the ground.
Churchill said the 17-year-old standing trial for murder later said to his friends, “Shit, just killed a guy. Like he’s dead bro.”
He is then alleged to have shown the teenagers the knife, which was covered in blood, before saying: “He’s full dead bro.”
The teenagers then fled back to the house where the party had been hosted earlier, the court heard. Hours later, a Snapchat video seized by police allegedly captured the two teenagers burning their blood-stained clothing.
Churchill said the duo had planned to flee before being arrested by police. She said that when the accused was asked by another teenager who was present with them during the second home invasion where the knife was, he allegedly smirked before saying, “It’s long gone.”
Amelia Beech, the lawyer for the accused teenager, told jurors that what they had heard from the prosecution was not evidence, but rather a set of allegations the teenager had killed Gordon with murderous intent. She said while it was not in dispute the injuries inflicted by the teenager had led to Gordon’s death, the intent of his actions was not proven.
She urged the jurors to think about what was going through the teenager’s mind at the time he was physically restrained by Gordon and whether he was “acting or reacting” to what was unfolding.
“Was this a desperate boy under attack, alone in the dark, with nowhere to run?” she said.
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