The trial of four people accused of murdering an eighteen-year-old man in Palmerston two years ago, has reopened in Darwin today, with the jury hearing witness accounts of a drunken altercation, alleged to have prompted the killing. The court heard that in October 2022 Kingsley Alley had been drinking at a party before throwing a drink on one of the four co-accused, who were in a rideshare vehicle outside the party.
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00:00Hours before 18-year-old Kingsley Alley was found dead at this Palmerston residence, he'd
00:07been celebrating his best mate's 19th birthday.
00:11Darwin Supreme Court today hearing from that friend and the friend's stepmother, who said
00:15Mr Alley had fought with another guest and alleged killer, Madison Butler.
00:20Minutes later, a witness said Miss Butler made a phone call.
00:23I got the gist of the conversation.
00:26The bits that I heard was, you need to come get us, this guy's gone crazy and thrown a
00:30drink on me.
00:31Come pick us up.
00:32Prosecution lawyers yesterday telling the court that following the phone call, Miss
00:36Butler, her mother and two others followed Mr Kingsley and allegedly bashed and stabbed
00:41him to death in an act of revenge.
00:44Miss Butler's lawyers suggesting the deceased had been highly intoxicated at the party as
00:49well as agitated and possibly armed.
00:52It's the case, isn't it, that someone said Kingsley had a knife?
00:55Yes.
00:56And you saw something reflective in his hand that could have been a knife?
01:00I saw something reflective.
01:02I didn't see a blade or an edge.
01:04Witness accounts of the initial altercation have gone mostly uncontested by lawyers for
01:09the co-accused, but that's expected to change next week when witness testimony turns to
01:14Kingsley Alley's alleged murder.