Indonesian court sentences 3 men for shooting death of fellow Australian in Bali
ABC News
An Indonesian court has sentenced three Australian men for the fatal shooting of another Australian
DENPASAR, Indonesia -- A court on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali sentenced three Australian citizens on Monday for the fatal shooting of a fellow Australian national in June after they claimed to have been paid by a man they will not identify.
Mevlut Coskun, Paea I Middlemore Tupou and Darcy Jenson were convicted of the shooting death of Zivan Radmanovic, a 32-year-old from Melbourne. A second man, 34-year-old Sanar Ghanim, was shot and beaten but survived the attack.
Coskun, 22, and Tupou, 27, were sentenced at Denpasar District Court to 16 years in prison and Jenson, 24, was sentenced to 12 years. Coskun and Tupou argued the shooting death was not intentional and occurred during the chaos of the night.
Radmanovic was in Bali to celebrate the birthday of his wife, Jazmyn Gourdeas, along with her sister and Ghanim, who was her sister’s partner. A coroner found Radmanovic suffered three gunshot wounds and blunt force trauma.
Prosecutors said Jenson organized the attack while the other two carried it out. Jenson was caught at Jakarta’s Soekarno Hatta airport in June as he attempted to leave the country. Coskun and Tupou were arrested in Singapore and Cambodia with the help of Interpol.
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