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Two new eyewitnesses come forward in NRL player Manase Fainu’s stabbing case
Manly hooker Manase Fainu’s lawyers say they’ve found two new eyewitnesses to the stabbing who claim he didn’t actually do it.
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Two new eyewitnesses to a stabbing that NRL player Manase Fainu was charged over but who have come forward to claim he didn’t actually do it are expected to give evidence at his trial.
The Manly Sea Eagles hooker was mentioned in Parramatta District Court on Monday – a week after he was dealt a major blow to his career when he was told he would have to wait until July next year to fight the allegations before a jury due to Covid.
The 23-year-old hasn’t played a game since 2019 when he was sidelined under the NRL’s no fault stand-down rule after being charged with intentional wounding over the incident during a brawl at a Mormon church dance in Sydney’s southwest.
Manase Fainu with his mother at the Dally M awards,
The court was told the victim himself doesn’t know who stabbed him and that witnesses in the Crown’s case have conflicting accounts about what happened.
Outside court, Fainu’s defence lawyer Paul McGirr said two new eyewitnesses to the incident who were never interviewed by police will be called to give evidence at the trial.
“I can confirm that there are two witnesses, two eyewitnesses who were present who weren’t interviewed by police who will be coming to court and stating, we envisage, that it was not our client that did the stabbing,” he said.
Fainu leaves Parklea jail after being granted bail.
“Basically, what you’ve got is the victim not knowing who did it to him … but now there’s also two other witnesses to the actual incident who have come forward and will be giving evidence for the defence”.
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The court also heard prosecutors had served a section 38 notice against one of the main witnesses in the case.
Mr McGirr said outside court that application was in relation to prosecutors wanting to seek to cross examine that main witness who could actually help Fainu’s case.
“The defence aren’t going to cross examine someone who helps their case, (prosecutors) don’t necessarily get to treat him as an unfavourable witness, it’s an application that will be made by the Crown,” he said.
Judge Gina O’Rourke, SC, said Fainu was facing the prospect of a lengthy jail stint if he’s found guilty when his lawyers appeared before her in court to seek variations to his bail conditions.
“He’ll be serving a significant period in custody if he gets convicted,” she said.
Crown prosecutor Emma Curran mentioned to the court Fainu had a prior conviction for filming someone “in an intimate situation”.
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She said if Fainu’s curfew conditions are amended there should be a requirement that he must be with his parents if he leaves his house at night.
Judge O’Rourke agreed to reduce Fainu’s reporting to police to three times a week and also ordered that he must be with his mum or dad if he leaves his house between 9pm and 6am.
Also if prosecution crosses these guys and they stand up there maybe exsculpertary? evidence that may lead them to conclude there maybe a slim chance of conviction? Weighty legal minds please feel free to examine the brief and opine
