QLD:Brisbane fight victim denies lying

AAP General News (Australia)
02-09-2011
QLD:Brisbane fight victim denies lying

By Christine Flatley

BRISBANE, Feb 9 AAP - An Aboriginal man has denied fabricating a reason for punching
some young Samoans who retaliated in a fight that left a man dead, a court has been told.

Richard Saunders, 38, died after being attacked by a group of Samoan males while he
was drinking in a suburban park on October 25, 2008, the Supreme Court in Brisbane heard
on Wednesday.

Four males are currently on trial for his murder and the assault of two other men -
Gordon Willis and Harold Bond - who were in the park at Woodridge with Mr …