The Australian man shot dead in a Bali villa earlier this month was a father of six who was holidaying on the island with his wife for a belated honeymoon and to mark her 30th birthday, lawyers in Indonesia said.
But instead of celebrating with her husband on June 16, Jazmyn Gourdeas, a Melbourne mother, visited her slain partner in the morgue.
The lawyers for Jazmyn Gourdeas, the wife of slain Melbourne man Zivan Radmanovic, hold up her handwritten note at a press conference in Bali on Tuesday. Credit: Amilia Rosa
Gourdeas was granted permission to sit quietly with the body of 32-year-old Zivan Radmanovic two days after he was killed by masked intruders at a luxury villa in Munggu, in Bali’s Badung district, in what police suspect was a targeted attack.
The trip was the couple’s first to Indonesia, and they had been in Bali for only two days when Radmanovic was shot, Gourdeas’ lawyers said.
The shooting injured another Melbourne man and rocked the popular holiday island. More than a week later, Gourdeas remains in Bali under police protection. Investigators are attempting to build evidence against three detained Australians.
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Police arrested Sydney plumber Darcy Francesco Jenson in Jakarta on Gourdeas’ birthday. The following day, convicted drug dealer Mevlut Coskun, 23, and Paea I Middlemore Tupou, were detained in Singapore and Cambodia, respectively. All three had now been brought back to Bali and charged with premeditated murder, police said, as well as the “embezzlement” or theft of several rental vehicles.
Gourdeas has told police she was woken by gunfire and her husband’s screams in the early hours of June 14 and hid terrified under the bedcovers as men, at least one of whom had an Australian accent, escaped the villa.
As for a possible motive, her lawyers said she told police: “I don’t why. I don’t know who [would want my husband dead] … I also want closure – I want to know.”
