A Sydney man has been discovered responsible of the manslaughter of a Brazilian nationwide at Surfers Paradise in 2019 throughout a brawl over stolen sizzling chips.
Ricky Kevin Lefoe, 32, stood trial this week within the Brisbane Supreme Court docket accused of the illegal killing of Ivan Patricio Susin, then aged 29, throughout the avenue brawl.
Following two days of proof and last instructions from Chief Justice Helen Bowskill on Wednesday morning, the jury returned its verdict inside a few hours.
In courtroom on Wednesday, Lefoe held his head in his hand and Susin's members of the family within the public gallery quietly gasped as the decision was learn out.
Lefoe's barrister Patrick McCafferty sought a two or three-week adjournment to acquire a pre-sentence report.
Justice Bowskill ordered that Lefoe's sentencing be held at a date to be mounted.
Through the trial, crown prosecutors and Lefoe's defence agreed that he punched Susin simply after 1am on October 1, 2019 outdoors an Orchid Road kebab store, inflicting him to fall and endure head accidents that claimed his life 10 days later.
The deadly blow resulted from a brawl that began when Lefoe's intoxicated good friend Shaun Simpson grabbed at a container of chips that two of Susin's pals had been consuming from whereas sitting outdoors on a bench.
The jury was repeatedly proven CCTV footage taken from outdoors the kebab store that confirmed your entire incident together with Susin's try and intervene and the punch that finally killed him.
Three bystanders testified that they heard shouting earlier than and throughout the brawl however couldn't recall or didn't hear the phrases that had been used.
One witness testified they noticed Susin try a "haymaker" punch and agreed with McCafferty that it was "delivered with nice pressure".
Kebab store employee Yousef Majed Abu Meizer testified that Susin appeared drunk and inside a matter of seconds he left the store, punched or pushed one of many two males who began the combat and was then knocked down.
McCafferty instructed the jury his consumer took motion as a result of Susin had tried to throw a robust punch at his good friend from behind.
In her closing assertion, crown prosecutor Elizabeth Kelso mentioned Lefoe had watched Simpson pin a smaller man to the bottom and punch him repeatedly earlier than punching Susin after he tried to assist.
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