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A SUPREME Court trial into the stabbing death of a 16-year-old boy has heard the harrowing triple-0 call made on the night of the murder and how his brother’s girlfriend said she “didn’t mean to do it”. The girl, who cannot be named because she was 17 at the time, is on trial for his murder and entered a plea of not guilty when the trial began in Griffith on Monday. The jury of nine men and three women were played the recording of the triple-0 call, made by the boy’s brother just after he had been stabbed in the neck. “My brother’s dying, my brother’s dying, please help me,” the victim’s brother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was heard to say at the beginning of the call. “Hurry up please, my brother’s dying.” The emergency call was played during the testimony of witness Trevor O’Brien, who owned the Palla Street unit in which the boy was stabbed. The girl accused of the murder cried as the jury listened to the call. Mr O’Brien told the court how he was woken in the early hours of October 7, 2010 by sounds of scuffling and yelling coming from the unit, which was next door to his own house. The witness then told the court he heard a knock at the door and opened it to find the accused and her boyfriend, the brother of the victim. “(The boyfriend) said ‘my brother’s dying’, he was in a very bad state and said ‘my brother’s dying, can you come around?’,” Mr O’Brien said. Mr O’Brien told the court when he walked into the unit he saw the victim in an armchair with a bloody towel wrapped around his neck. “He was leaning over his brother and the girl was next to him leaning over him too ... she was saying ‘wake up, wake up’,” he said. The brother originally made the triple-0 call but the phone was soon passed to Mr O’Brien as the brother was too distraught to answer the operator properly. Mr O’Brien was heard during the recording to question the brother and the girl about what had happened. “There’s blood everywhere,” Mr O’Brien said. “He’s still breathing ... they can’t tell me what’s happened ... there’s a cut on his neck I don’t know who did it ... did you do it? ... the girl did it.” When questioned by the Crown, Mr O’Brien said when he asked the girl if she did it she replied “I didn’t mean to do it”. Mr O’Brien told the jury the accused brought a knife out of the bedroom and placed it on the lounge room table after he asked her what she did it with. The trial continues.