Michael Patrick Walker is jailed for life for stabbing 27-year-old Axel Boreski to death in a street in Halls Head, south of Perth.
They had continued drinking at Walker's invitation at his home in Leighton Road East, where he lived with his girlfriend and her family members.
By his own account, Walker was"very drunk" by the time his girlfriend went to bed, leaving him alone with Mr Boreski and another man before the fight broke out. Accounts of the fight varied, but Walker himself told the court he feared for his own life as Mr Boreski was bigger and stronger than him, and he was being choked.
At one point, Walker ended up into the backyard pool, with the 24-year-old saying he had been"chucked" in.Mr Boreski left after he was asked to do so by Walker's girlfriend's mother, and Walker called triple zero at 4:52am, saying,"I've been assaulted at my girlfriend's house". But he told the court he did not mean it when he told the operator he was"going to kill him" and"go get him", testifying that he"always said stupid stuff".A second fight ensued and this time only one of them walked away.
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