Adelaide shooting victim's family left wondering 'if it was because he was gay'

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The niece of an Adelaide shooting victim has told a court she often wonders if his death more than 20 years ago was related to his sexuality.

Paul Beveridge Maroroa was found guilty of manslaughter last Novemberguilty by a Supreme Court jury of the manslaughter of Robert SabeckisThe victim's niece, Vilija Sabeckis, today read a statement to the court about the crime's impact on her family and the broader Lithuanian community.

"I used to have vivid and strange nightmares involving members of my family being taken away or being shot right in front of me," she said.Ms Sabeckis said Maroroa had not provided an adequate explanation for what happened on the night her uncle was shot. "I was often asked if it was because he was gay, and if it was a hate crime, and I never knew how to answer that, even though it was something I often thought about," she said."[Maroroa] put forward a version of events that protected himself from the full extent of what he had done.

"The accused continues to cause pain and suffering for my family … I hope this haunts the accused for the rest of his life."Maroroa's lawyer Heath Barklay SC said his client should be sentenced on the basis he was acting in self-defence, but"excessively".The New Zealand man eluded prosecution for 18 years until a DNA match following his arrest on another matter in 2018.

 

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Reporting speculation without evidence is not journalism.

So that's news? What the victim's family wondering? Gay baiting? You have become a pure trash.

Typically hate crimes only occur in radical leftwing cities such as Melbourne so for Adelaide 20 years ago it’s unlikely.

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