Jail for up to 16 years for Australian hitmen who killed compatriot in Bali
The Straits Times
Gunmen Paea-I-Middlemore Tupou, 27, and Mevlut Coskun, 23, said they had been hired to collect a debt. Read more at straitstimes.com.
DENPASAR, Indonesia – Two Australian hitmen were sentenced to 16 years in prison on March 9 for shooting dead a compatriot over a debt dispute on the Indonesian resort island of Bali in 2025.
A third man, convicted of organising the hit on Mr Zivan Radmanovic at a tourist villa, was jailed for 12 years by a court in Denpasar, Bali, where violent crime is rare and guns hard to come by.
Mr Radmanovic was killed when gunmen burst into his villa in Badung in June 2025 and opened fire. A second man, 34-year-old Sanar Ghanim, was seriously injured.
Gunmen Paea-I-Middlemore Tupou, 27, and Mevlut Coskun, 23, said they had been hired to collect a debt from Ghanim, but refused to name their client.
The third man, 27-year-old Darcy Jenson, was found guilty of supplying weapons and planning the attack.
Jenson was arrested at the airport in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, while apparently trying to flee. The other two did manage to escape, but were returned to Bali from Cambodia to stand trial.
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