Witnesses testify in Bali trial into alleged premeditated shooting murder of Zivan Radmanovic

Chilling new details have been revealed about the brutal allegedly premeditated murder of Melbourne man Zivan Radmanovic in Bali earlier this year, with seven witnesses testifying at a Denpasar court this week about what they saw and heard in the moments surrounding the violence. Mr Radmanovic and underworld figure Sanar Ghanim were shot at Villa Casa Santisya in Munggu, north of Kuta, about midnight on June 14. Mr Ghanim was shot in the leg and beaten but escaped the attack, with photos from the aftermath showing him with a bloodied foot and face, while Mr Radmanovic was beaten and shot dead. His wife Jazmyn Gourdeas and Jazmyn’s sister Danielle Gourdeas were also in the villa and witnessed the shooting. Three Australians, 27-year-old Darcy Francesco Jenson, 22-year-old Mevlut Coskun and 26-year-old Paea-I-Middlemore Tupou, were arrested days later for the alleged crime. Indonesian prosecutors have charged all three with premeditated murder, which carries the death penalty in Indonesia. Bali police allege the shooting was an organised crime hit. This week, a resident of the villa said he heard “gunshots” and “screaming”. “There was the sound of something being smashed, gunshots, like firecrackers going off,” the witness told Denpasar District Court as reported by Indonesian media outlet Detik Bali. “A woman was screaming, again and again.” The witness said he peered through a “gap in the door” and saw two men, one on an automatic scooter and the other on a motorbike. One of the men yelled out, “the motorbike won’t start”, the witness said. Another witness, the owner of the villa complex, told the court he had rented out a villa number 1 to Mr Ghanim since January on a three-year contract, Tribun-Bali.com reports. He said he arrived at the villa after the violence to find Mr Ghanim at the door holding his bleeding leg. The villa’s door was broken, he said, and he found a hammer 1.5 metres from it. “I saw from the outside the door had been broken,” he said. “There were bullet marks.” Days after the alleged murder, Ms Gourdeas’ family lawyer Sary Latief read out a handwritten letter from Jazmyn that described Mr Radmanovic as “a loving man and the best dad in the world”. “Now I have the unimaginable (task) of going home to tell (the kids) that he’s no longer here,” the letter read. “Please respect our privacy so we can grieve his loss.” Mr Coskun and Mr Tupou are being tried together, while Mr Jenson is being tried alone. Last week, the police reportedly transported the prisoners to court in two armoured vehicles, with more than 100 officers and a bomb squad unit guarding them. A local source told NewsWire in October that local police had run an extensive investigation of the alleged murder over the past four months. The police have recovered a gun allegedly used in the shooting.