Not guilty plea for NYE Wedge Island death

A man accused of fatally stabbing a 20-year-old man during a fight at a New Years Eve party on Wedge Island, north of Perth, has pleaded not guilty.

Appearing in Stirling Gardens Magistrates Court on Wednesday via videolink, Joseph Robert Houston denied murdering James Dorloff at the beach party on December 31.

The matter has been listed for a 10-day trial commencing on May 4.

Houston has not yet entered a plea for allegedly unlawfully wounding Tyson Cumming at the same event and was remanded in custody.