{"id":528551,"date":"2026-03-09T09:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/528551\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T09:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:36:11","slug":"australian-men-sentenced-in-indonesian-court-for-bali-murder-of-zivan-radmanovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/528551\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian men sentenced in Indonesian court for Bali murder of Zivan Radmanovic"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Indonesian court has jailed two Australian men for 16 years over the murder of a Melbourne father who was shot in a Bali villa last year.<\/p>\n

Zivan Radmanovic, 32, was killed when two masked gunmen, Mevlut Coskun and Paea I Middlemore Tupou, stormed the villa in the middle of the night on June 14.<\/p>\n

Mr Radmanovic was staying at the tourist accommodation as part of birthday celebrations for wife Jazmyn Gourdeas.<\/p>\n

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Jazmyn Gourdeas (centre) was in court for the start of the trial. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Ms Gourdeas’s sister, Daniella Gourdeas, and her partner Sanar Ghanim were also staying at the property.<\/p>\n

Coskun and Tupou were found guilty by the Bali District Court of premeditated murder as well as possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n

During their trial, Coskun and Tupou told the court they had been sent to the villa by an Australian man they would not name, to threaten Mr Ghanim into paying a debt.<\/p>\n

Tupou told the court he mistook Mr Radmanovic for Mr Ghanim and shot him.<\/p>\n

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The Australians were presented to the media during a police press conference after the shooting. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

Mr Ghanim, who was once in a relationship with the stepdaughter of dead underworld figure Carl Williams, was shot and beaten but survived the attack.<\/p>\n

A third Australian, Darcy Jenson, has been found guilty of assisting premeditated murder and jailed for 12 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police allege Mr Jenson provided logistics around the attack, including organising vehicles and accommodation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bali District Court judges said the murder had caused concern on the popular tourist island, where violent crimes related to firearms were rare.<\/p>\n

Judges also said the sentence reflected Mr Radmanovic’s role as a breadwinner and that the family had not forgiven Coskun and Tupou for the shooting.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors previously asked for a sentence of 18 years for the pair and Mr Radmanovic’s wife had called for the maximum penalty.<\/p>\n

Premeditated murder can carry the death penalty in Indonesia.<\/p>\n

\"Three<\/p>\n

Villa Casa Santisya, where the shooting took place. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

During the trial, Coskun gave evidence that he was offered money and a holiday to Bali in exchange for threatening Mr Ghanim.<\/p>\n

He told the court he felt he was “in too deep” after he was instructed to pick up the handguns.<\/p>\n

Tupou told the court he went into Mr Radmanovic’s room and mistook him for Mr Ghanim.<\/p>\n

“He had something in his hands, he ran at me and my last option was to shoot him,” Mr Tupou said.<\/p>\n

A coroner’s examination found Mr Radmanovic had three gunshot entry wounds and blunt force trauma.<\/p>\n

Mr Tupou and Mr Coskun offered apologies to Mr Radmanovic’s family, including to his wife.<\/p>\n

“I understand no words I offer can ever lessen your grief or undo what has occurred, but I am truly and deeply sorry for the pain and the heartbreak your family has been forced to endure,” Tupou told the court.<\/p>\n

The murder shocked many in Bali, where gun crime and fatal shootings are rare.<\/p>\n

During the attack, Jazmyn Gourdeas hid under the bedcovers while her husband was shot and killed.<\/p>\n

Police said her sister Daniella raced out onto the street, screaming for help.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Jazmyn Gourdeas’s lawyer Sary Latief said the sentence showed a “worrying disparity between the severity of the act and the punishment imposed”.<\/p>\n

“This case involves the use of illegal firearms in a highly brutal, organised attack,” she said.<\/p>\n

“While there have been past cases of weapons possession in Bali, the escalation of violence in the ‘Bali 3’ case is at a far more dangerous level because it resulted in the premeditated loss of life.<\/p>\n

“Sentencing perpetrators of premeditated murder involving firearms to only a dozen or so years sends the wrong message to the international community: that Indonesia tolerates compromise regarding the illegal use of firearms”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Indonesian court has jailed two Australian men for 16 years over the murder of a Melbourne father…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,262694,262695,262696,262697,44,131629],"class_list":["post-528551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bali-arrest","tag-bali-murder","tag-jazmyn-gourdeas","tag-mevlut-coskun","tag-news","tag-zivan-radmanovic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}