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March 04, 2008
A PARTYGOER tried to scramble over a fence before being dragged down and fatally stabbed with a Samurai sword, the Adelaide Magistrates Court has heard.
Prosecutors today opposed a bail application by two young men accused of the murder of 21-year old Thea Kheav at a Parafield Gardens party last December.
Chansyna Duong, 20, and an 18-year old man whose name is suppressed were last month arrested and charged with the murder.
Prosecutor Elizabeth Griffith said the suppressed man was involved in a fight with Mr Kheav's brothers at the party on Vartue St.
It is alleged the man later returned with 10 to 15 other people and began assaulting Mr Kheav.
March 04, 2008
A PARTYGOER tried to scramble over a fence before being dragged down and fatally stabbed with a Samurai sword, the Adelaide Magistrates Court has heard.
Prosecutors today opposed a bail application by two young men accused of the murder of 21-year old Thea Kheav at a Parafield Gardens party last December.
Chansyna Duong, 20, and an 18-year old man whose name is suppressed were last month arrested and charged with the murder.
Prosecutor Elizabeth Griffith said the suppressed man was involved in a fight with Mr Kheav's brothers at the party on Vartue St.
It is alleged the man later returned with 10 to 15 other people and began assaulting Mr Kheav.
"The victim tried to escape over a gate but was pulled down by two people then attacked with what is believed to be a piece of timber," Ms Griffith said.
"Witnesses saw the deceased on the ground with four people around him hitting him with timber and another stomping on him."
Ms Griffith alleged it was Duong who inflicted the stab wound and said the weapon has never been found.
The court also heard Mr Kheav's blood was found inside the other accused man's car and on his shirt.
Ms Griffith said witnesses who had given statements to police were fearful for their safety, noting that some were in hiding interstate.
The prosecutor said police were worried the accused men would flee the country if released on bail and said a third person of interest had already flown to Cambodia.
She said the homes of the two accused men had molotov cocktails thrown at them in the weeks leading up to their arrests.
The court also heard a group of men had attended various nightspots looking for the accused men.
Duong's lawyer David Edwardson QC said the prosecution case was weak, and based on "speculation, supposition and conjecture."
Deputy Chief Magistrate Dr Andrew Cannon refused Duong bail but granted his co-accused home detention bail.
However the man remains in custody for the time being after both Ms Griffith and Duong's lawyers signalled Supreme Court appeals, to be heard within 72 hours.
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