{"id":528786,"date":"2026-03-09T12:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/528786\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T12:18:19","slug":"australian-gunmen-sentenced-to-16-years-jail-over-killing-of-melbourne-dad-zivan-radmanovic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/528786\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian gunmen sentenced to 16 years\u2019 jail over killing of Melbourne dad Zivan Radmanovic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated March 9, 2026 \u2014 7:56pm,first published 6:12pm<\/p>\n

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Bali: Family members of an Australian gunned down last year in a Bali villa are devastated at what their lawyer says are disgustingly light sentences handed to the two standover men convicted of his premeditated murder.<\/p>\n

Australians Mevlut Coskun and Paea I Middlemore Tupou were each handed 16-year jail terms by a panel of Denpasar judges on Monday for killing Melbourne father of six Zivan Radmanovic<\/a> in a surprise attack in the early hours of June 14.<\/p>\n

\"MevlutMevlut Coskun (left) and Paea I Middlemore Tupou after their sentencing on Monday.Amilia Rosa<\/p>\n

The terms are far short of the life sentences sought by the family, and two years less than prosecutors had proposed during the trial.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe judges have clearly stated all the elements of premeditated murder. A life was taken. They had firearms. They went into the villa without consent. It sounded so clear they would go 18 years at a minimum,\u201d Sary Latief from DNT Lawyers, representing the family, said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a message globally [to criminals], \u2018Hey, come to Bali\u2019. I mean, we\u2019ve had the mutilation case recently<\/a> [of Ukrainian tourist Igor Komarov] that involved an underbelly-type scene. As someone who practises law here, with the increase of execution-type crimes, it really does make Bali look like it\u2019s not a safe place to be. It\u2019s disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ZivanZivan Radmanovic\u2019s widow, Jazmyn Gourdeas, is consoled by a family member after the sentencingy.Zach Hope\"RadmanovicRadmanovic and Gourdeas at their wedding. <\/p>\n

A third man, 27-year-old Sydney plumber Darcy Jenson, who was charged with assisting premeditated murder, was sentenced to 12 years\u2019 jail in a later hearing.<\/p>\n

Dressed in crisp shirts and trousers for the verdicts on Monday, Coskun, 23, Tupou, 26, were led in handcuffs to the centre of the courtroom, where they leant silently towards a translator.<\/p>\n

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They were just metres from 10 members of Radmanovic\u2019s family<\/a>, who had returned to Bali on Sunday night after going home in frustration last week when the judges unexpectedly delayed the verdicts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope you get life,\u201d one of them muttered as the pair was marched into the packed courtroom.<\/p>\n

When the sentence was translated by Latief, Radmanovic\u2019s widow, Jazmyn Gourdeas, buried her head into the shoulder of a family member. Others cried. None of them spoke outside court.<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s adjournment was called because the panel of judges had not yet agreed on an outcome for Jenson, who was accused of organising logistics, including getaway cars, travel tickets and the hammer Tupou used to smash open the door of the villa. His lawyers have said he was not aware of the plot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Only half of Radmanovic\u2019s devastated family stayed to hear Jenson\u2019s sentence, which was five years shorter than prosecutors had sought.<\/p>\n

\"DarcyDarcy Jenson being paraded at a police press conference in Bali in June.Amilia Rosa<\/p>\n

\u201cDog!\u201d one of them yelled to Jenson as he was led from the court in handcuffs.<\/p>\n

Outside, Radmanovic\u2019s mother-in-law, who did not provide her name, said the family had been failed.<\/p>\n

\u201cBali\u2019s a joke … you can come here and kill someone and what\u2019s going to happen?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Radmanovic and his wife had been in Bali only a couple of days for Gourdeas\u2019 30th birthday, and were sharing the villa with her sister, Daniella Gourdeas, and Daniella\u2019s partner, Sanar Ghanim \u2013 the apparent intended target of the botched attack, the court heard.<\/p>\n

\"SanarSanar Ghanim after being shot in Bali. He survived his wounds.Instagram<\/p>\n

The drawn-out trial heard a mysterious figure in Australia promised the three men cash and a holiday in exchange for bashing or threatening Ghanim as a warning to pay back a debt.<\/p>\n

In the chaos of the amateurish operation<\/a>, Tupou shot Radmanovic, believing it was Ghanim, the court heard. Coskun shot Ghanim several times but did not kill him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t have intentions to shoot or to murder. The exact order was to warn [Ghanim] because he owed money,\u201d Tupou told the court last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as I opened the door, I seen [sic] someone \u2026 and he picked something up in his hands \u2026 I walked into [Radmanovic\u2019s] room because at that moment I thought it was Sanar. I didn\u2019t know there were going to be two guys in there.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I walked in his room there were two people \u2013 there was him and someone else who was hiding in the bed. Then I made my way to the bathroom, and as I got to the bathroom, he had something still in his hand, which led me to shoot him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tupou said he froze during the shooting and said, \u201cSanar, you need to pay\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said that he was not Sanar \u2026 I was freaking out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neither the two sisters nor Ghanim testified during the trial, citing safety concerns<\/a> in Australia, despite requests from the judges. There had been a break-in at Jazmyn\u2019s home in Melbourne, the family\u2019s lawyer said. Daniella\u2019s beauty salon had been firebombed.<\/p>\n

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One of Radmanovic\u2019s children was in the Bali courtroom for the verdict. \u201cHe was more than my tata [dad], he was my best friend,\u201d the boy said in a statement to this masthead last week. \u201cWe always called each other bro, and I could always count on him to be there.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if I was wrong, he\u2019d stand behind me and say I was right, then pull me aside afterwards and explain to me what I could have done better. No one will ever take his place and I miss him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tupou and Coskun met for the first time in Malaysia on the orders of the Australian Mr Big, whom none of the defendants would name for their safety.<\/p>\n

The pair travelled together to the Indonesian city of Jakarta<\/a> before taking a bus more than 700 kilometres east to Surabaya, where Jenson picked them up and drove them another 400 kilometres to the tourist hub of southern Bali.<\/p>\n

\"GourdeasGourdeas (centre) consoling one of her children outside court in Bali last week after the judges postponed the verdicts.Zach Hope<\/p>\n

For a few days in Bali, it was a \u201cnormal holiday [for young] Australian guys: tattoos, shopping, beach,\u201d Coskun said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI expected when I came to Bali, it was for maybe just punching or bashing Sanar. But I didn\u2019t expect it to be anything this violent, this bad. When I received the [guns], I showed Tupou and we were both shocked.\u201d<\/p>\n

The guns were delivered to a rice paddy near the assailant\u2019s villa. It is unknown who put them there.<\/p>\n

At close to midnight on June 13, the gunmen hopped on scooters and went to the holidaymakers\u2019 villa, a route they had previously scoped out, with the guns and the hammer.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen I walked into the room \u2013 it was dark, I was nervous, shaking, I think the TV was on \u2013 I seen [sic] Sanar and [Daniella] next to him, standing behind the bed,\u201d Coskun said in December.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told him, \u2018I\u2019m here to warn you about a debt that you owe\u2019. He looked shocked \u2026 I freaked out [when I] seen him running towards the cabinet \u2026 [and] just instinct, I shot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ghanim ran to the bathroom and Coskun fired more shots, the court heard.<\/p>\n

When it was done, the two gunmen ran back to their scooters, met Jenson at a pre-arranged location in Bali and tossed the evidence.<\/p>\n

They were all arrested within days. Jenson was picked up in Jakarta and Coskun and Tupou were detained in Singapore and Cambodia, respectively.<\/p>\n

The lawyer for Coskun and Tupou, Ricky Rajinder Singh, said they would take the next few days to consider whether there were grounds to shorten their sentences on appeal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey understand they\u2019ve committed a crime. They understand what they did deserves punishment,\u201d he said. \u201cBut they do ask for leniency … [and] the judges sentenced them to only two years less than the prosecutors asked.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"ZachZach Hope<\/a> is South-East Asia correspondent. He is a former reporter at the Brisbane Times.Connect via email<\/a>.\"AmiliaAmilia Rosa<\/a> is assistant Indonesia correspondent.Connect via X<\/a>.From our partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated March 9, 2026 \u2014 7:56pm,first published 6:12pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-528786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528786","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=528786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}