The man charged with second-degree murder in the death of 19-year-old Misha Pavelick during a 2006 graduation party at a campground near Regina Beach bragged about stabbing someone that night, a witness said.

The now 36-year-old accused’s identity is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, because he was 17 at the time.

On Thursday, Scott Nelson testified Thursday at the Court of King’s Bench in Regina on the fourth day of the accused's jury trial, being presided over by Justice Catherine Dawson.

In 2007, Nelson pleaded guilty to aggravated assault for stabbing another partygoer, Derek Enns, on the same night that Pavelick died — May 21, 2006.

Nelson, who was 20 years old at the time, said he travelled up to the Kinookimaw campground, 45 kilometres northwest of Regina, with a

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