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Courtroom violence erupts in murder case
As soon as the teenage murderer spied his former friend and partner in crime across the courtroom, he started muttering under his breath.
The next minute, mayhem broke loose in the Supreme Court in Sydney on Thursday.
The young man broke free from corrective services officers, leapt over a row of chairs and dashed across the court room yelling, "You're dead, you f***ing dog!"
As court officers, police officers and corrective services officers rushed to restrain him from attacking his former friend, Corey Loveridge, frightened relatives of their victims broke down in tears.
The two young men were in court for a sentence hearing into their "brutal and unprovoked" murder of a defenceless 17-year-old boy they stabbed multiple times at St Marys in western Sydney in December 2010.
He repeatedly screamed, "You're gone", while corrective service officers moved in front of the dock to protect Loveridge.
After the young man was restrained and handcuffed in the jury box, the furthest point from Loveridge, he appeared emotional before an ambulance was called.
The court heard the men also broke into the home of an 88-year-old great-grandmother on the night of the murder, hitting the old lady over the head with her walking stick, screaming obscenities and threatening to stab her.
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