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Australia: Kizon inquiry flawed: lawyers
26.4.2006
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PERTH, Australia,
April 26, -- identity John Kizon was charged with
hiding a gun used in a nightclub shooting even
though police failed to secure the alleged crime
scene, a court was told today.
Mr Kizon is on trial in the West Australian District
Court with four other men, all accused of attempting
to cover up the shooting of Iraqi Kurd Nabil Dabag
in a staff-only office section of a nightclub in
inner city Northbridge last year.
The jury has been told Mr Dabag was shot four times
in the upper thigh by one of the accused, Troy
Desmond Mercanti, who was retaliating after being
stabbed in the chest by the Iraqi.
Mr Kizon, Mr Mercanti, David Morris, Adam Wayne
Lloyd and Paul Kenneth Martino are charged with
perverting the course of justice by trying to cover
up the shooting, with Mr Kizon and Mr Morris
allegedly removing a .38 revolver which has not been
found.
Mr Mercanti is additionally charged with unlawful
wounding.
During cross examination today, Mr Kizon's lawyer
Phillip Dunn suggested the police investigation was
flawed because it failed to secure the crime scene,
allowing it to be contaminated.
“What happens, what is seen on television on Crime
Scene Investigation (CSI) did not happen here, did
it?” Mr Dunn asked police crime scene investigator
Sergeant George Paton today.
“No,” he replied.
“Crime scenes should be isolated,” Mr Dunn said.
“Ideally, yes,” Sgt Paton replied.
Mr Dunn said up to 20 people had been able to walk
in and out the nightclub's office after the shooting
and police had failed to search people leaving the
club or take names and addresses of possible
witnesses.
Nor was the nightclub closed after the fight, with
more than 1000 people partying on upstairs, unaware
of what had happened in the offices.
The trial continues.
AAP
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