Overview
- The murder trial of professional fighter Bradley Dusan Fletcher, which opened Wednesday in the NSW Supreme Court, turns on whether he meant to inflict really serious injury.
- A clinical geneticist told jurors the victim’s brittle bone disease did not drive the fatal outcome and said fractures and dislodged teeth of this kind do not occur by accident.
- An autopsy found multiple blunt force injuries, including head trauma, brain bleeding, facial and rib fractures, and broken teeth, with a molar lodged in the airway.
- Prosecutors say Fletcher did not call emergency services after the assault and instead dumped the body on a nearby footpath, where a passerby raised the alarm.
- The defense maintains the death was an accident during intoxicated sparring and notes he pleaded guilty to manslaughter, a plea prosecutors rejected.