The teenager charged with fatally stabbing Good Samaritan Petr Levkovskiy will remain in custody for at least three more weeks after his next court appearance was postponed until the end of July.
The 15-year-old, charged last month with the murder of Bull Creek’s father, was set to appear in Perth Children’s Court via video link on Thursday.
But an email received by the court that morning indicated that both the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the teen’s lawyer had agreed that the case should be adjourned until July 21.
He will be held in custody until two months after he was arrested for allegedly stabbing Mr. Lekovskiy in the stomach with a knife.
It is alleged that the 42-year-old FIFO operative confronted the teen along Camm Avenue in Bull Creek on Sunday morning, May 22, after seeing him in possession of another boy’s stolen bicycle.
That boy had been with a group of children when his bicycle was taken.
He had caught the attention of Mr. Levovskiy and his wife, who live nearby, moments after the alleged theft.
Police allege that minutes after they jumped into their car to search the streets for the thief, the couple saw a male teenager riding a bicycle.
After Mr. Levkovskiy got out of his car and confronted the teenager, he was reportedly stabbed. He was rushed to hospital but died of his injuries that evening.
Camera icon Petr Levkovskiy was fatally stabbed in Bull Creek. Credit: Kim Grace/Facebook
The teen was arrested a day after the incident. The next day, the charges — one count of murder and another of robbery — were read to him, but the case was adjourned until the afternoon for a possible bail hearing before Children’s Court president Hylton Quail.
During that hearing, an on-duty attorney on behalf of the 15-year-old, who looked shocked as he sat in the dock, told the court that no bail request would be filed and the teen would seek legal aid.
He then asked Judge Quail if the case could be adjourned until the following week.
Prosecutor Brad Hollingsworth told the court that if a bail petition were filed, the state would oppose it.
While the teen’s parents supported him from the back of the court during that hearing, they were not present at Thursday’s case.
After Mr. Levkovskiy’s death, family and friends paid tribute, describing him as a “kind, good-hearted Samaritan” who would always step in to help anyone.
And more than a thousand people across Australia have donated $139,000 to a fundraising page set up to help Mr. Levkovskiy’s grieving family.