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Bali: The family of slain Australian Zivan Radmanovic is furious at travelling to Bali for the court verdicts on three men accused over a fatal ambush at a luxury villa last year, only to be told proceedings had been postponed until next week.<\/p>\n

Ten family members, including one of Radmanovic\u2019s six young children, waited for three hours for the judges to arrive and hand down their decision on Australians Mevlut Coskun, Paea I Middlemore Tupou and Darcy Jenson before the unexpected adjournment.<\/p>\n

\"JazmynJazmyn Gourdeas (centre), the widow of Zivan Radmanovic, consoling one of their children outside court in Bali after the judges postponed the verdicts.Zach Hope<\/p>\n

Radmanovic was killed in the early hours of June 14 inside the villa he and his wife, Jazmyn Gourdeas, were sharing with her sister and her sister\u2019s partner, Sanar Ghanim \u2013 the apparent intended target of the attack.<\/p>\n

The months-long, off-and-on trial heard that the accused were promised cash and a holiday by a mysterious figure in Australia in exchange for bashing or threatening Ghanim as a warning to pay back a debt.<\/p>\n

But it was an amateurish operation. No one was supposed to get shot, Coskun and Tupou told the court in December, and certainly not Radmanovic. Ghanim was also shot but survived.<\/p>\n

Coskun and Tupou are accused of premeditated murder and firearm offences. Jenson is accused of assisting premeditated murder.<\/p>\n

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Gourdeas had to leave five of the couple\u2019s other children at home to make the journey for the verdicts. It is believed the family is supposed to be flying home to Australia on Tuesday. Outside court, Gourdeas, who had to explain the situation to her visibly devastated child, described the process as a \u201cf—ing joke\u201d.<\/p>\n

The judges had given no notice that they were going to adjourn. They finally appeared in the courtroom about midday local time, already hours after the session was due to begin.<\/p>\n

Everyone inside the room had believed the session was about to start when guards marched the suspects to their seats in the centre of the room. In bizarre scenes, the media crowded in front of Gourdeas and her family, blocking their view of the ultra-short proceedings.<\/p>\n

But the judges then told the court that they had not reached a unanimous decision in the case of Jenson and wanted to read all three verdicts together next week.<\/p>\n

\"RadmanovicRadmanovic and Gourdeas had been in Bali on holidays.<\/p>\n

Family members traded shocked glances as their lawyer translated. \u201cWhat a joke,\u201d one woman said. \u201cIt\u2019s shocking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gourdeas said on Monday the family had no idea what to do next.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour government hasn\u2019t helped. Our government hasn\u2019t helped. Nobody has helped us \u2013 every time, we have attended at our own cost, and we\u2019re told today it\u2019s adjourned, without being notified prior,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow what? What do we do? Go home and not be able to afford to come back next week, or wait in Bali and spend more money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gourdeas\u2019 Indonesia lawyer, Sary Latief, said the court should have found a way to give the family notice, describing the events as a failure of the Indonesian justice system.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe court should have known that they\u2019ll be coming here today,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is the entire family flying \u2026 and the way the court was late [starting] today was already a huge distress for the family.\u201d<\/p>\n

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