Eighth person, 14, charged over brutal stabbing death outside Perth train station
A 14-year-old boy has been charged with murder over the death of a man outside a Perth train station - the eighth person charged over the brutal killing.
Patrick ‘Paddy’ Slater, 26, was stabbed to death outside the Perth Esplanade railway station about early morning on January 27, when a violent fight broke out.
The eight people charged over the event includes an 11-year-old boy, who is one of the youngest people in Australian history to be charged with murder.
The 11-year-old posted pictures on social media of himself with wads of cash and was reduced to tears in jail.
The victim’s younger sister Denise, who was allegedly slashed on the leg during the fight, said a group of about 20 to 30 approached her brother, herself and another sister, and two cousins, who were waiting to for their mother to pick them up at the train station.
Mr Slater then picked his injured sister and carried her to some nearby bushes and told her to hide.
Her brother walked away and tried to divert the attackers’ attention away from her, Denise said.
The attackers allegedly followed Mr Slater, where they stabbed him multiple times with a stab to the heart.
Denise said she watched the brutal attack from the bushes where her brother left her to hide.
Mr Slater died in hospital the next morning.
Mr Slater’s mother, Cindy Brockman, said she couldn’t understand how an 11-year-old could get mixed up in such serious trouble, or why he was roaming the city streets at 3.30am.
“I couldn’t believe it actually, I didn’t believe it until I could see it for myself,” Ms Brockman told The Sunday Times.
The family have described Mr Slater as a ‘gentle giant’ with a ‘heart of gold’.
“He was a kind hearted man who touched many lives. Paddy's death has left his family completely heart broken.”
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