Tuesday 4 October 2022 02:15 PM Chikayne Heslip murder: Kingston Trey Coomer jailed over Perth teen's stabbing ... trends now
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A teen killer who stabbed a complete stranger to death at a party has been sentenced to life behind bars, sparking angry scenes outside court.
Furious supporters lashed out at photographers and cameramen with one girl telling them to 'get the f*** away' after Kingston Trey Coomer, 19, learned his fate in the Supreme Court of Western Australia on Tuesday.
Chikayne Heslip, 17, died after he was chased down and attacked by a group of youths at a party in Waikiki, south of Perth, in December 2020.
The court heard Coomer stabbed Chikayne 32 times with a knife as his victim laid helplessly on the ground in what Justice Michael Corboy described as a 'senseless and explicable act of violence'.
A jury took less than a hour to find Coomer guilty of his murder earlier this year.
Chikayne Heslip, 17, died after he was chased down, attacked and stabbed 32 times in 2020
Footage from the harrowing scene was filmed by partygoers and later circulated on social media, including a blood-stained brick wall.
'Call the f****** ambulance,' a
