Overview
- Prosecutors read charges of premeditated murder, attempted murder and illegal weapons possession against Darcy Jenson, Paea I Middlemore Tupou and Coskun Mevlut, offenses that can carry the death penalty in Indonesia.
- A three-judge panel is hearing the case without a jury, the defendants raised no objections to the indictment, and the court scheduled the evidentiary phase to continue on November 3.
- The indictment alleges a fourth, unnamed Australian directed the operation via the encrypted app Threema and that Jenson arranged rentals and gear under those instructions.
- Authorities say the attackers wore delivery-rider jackets and balaclavas, forced entry with a hammer, shot Zivan Radmanovic and wounded Sanar Ghanim with 9mm handguns, then discarded the weapons in a river.
- Radmanovic’s wife, Jazmyn Gourdeas, attended the opening hearing in Denpasar and, through her lawyer, called for the maximum penalty.