Impalement claim 'inconceivable': WA trial

By Rebecca Le May
Updated February 14 2019 - 6:41pm, first published 6:37pm
Charles McCarthy's brother and sisters have traveled from Ireland for his alleged murderer's trial.
Charles McCarthy's brother and sisters have traveled from Ireland for his alleged murderer's trial.

It is inconceivable an Irish father-of-two accidentally impaled himself on a screwdriver during a fatal fight with a fisherman next to Perth's Swan River that was sparked by a "racist" comment, a jury has heard.

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