Overview
- The 36-year-old died in hospital more than three weeks after being knocked unconscious on December 27 outside a Perth nightclub, his family said.
- Police have charged Brodie Jake Dewar, 20, with grievous bodily harm over the incident, and he appeared in court where CCTV of the punch was shown.
- A magistrate revoked Dewar’s bail last week after a separate alleged Christmas Day assault, describing both incidents as “coward punches.”
- Picton had been in an induced coma and underwent surgery for a serious brain bleed and a fractured skull following the December 27 attack.
- A former WA Labor strategist behind the party’s 2021 landslide, Picton later worked as director of strategy at mining company Mineral Resources.