SA: Shooting victim left to die: court told

AAP General News (Australia)
04-27-2010
SA: Shooting victim left to die: court told

ADELAIDE, April 27 AAP - An Adelaide man was left to die on a driveway after being
shot during a New Year's eve party with no one who saw the killing calling police or an
ambulance, a court has heard.

Brett Bamford, 37, was shot once in the early hours of New Year's day 2009, with the
bullet passing through his left arm and into his torso.

Opening the crown case against two men charged with his murder, prosecutor Emily Telfer
told the South Australian Supreme Court it was alleged Matthew Christopher Jones fired
the fatal shot and that Grant Lindsay Lane was part of a joint plan to kill Mr Bamford.

Ms Telfer said the incident was sparked by a dispute Lane had with a woman during the
night. She said Mr Bamford, who had supported the woman, had been in the wrong place at
the wrong time.

She said those who saw the shooting simply fled the north Adelaide property, concerned
for their own safety.

"No witnesses called an ambulance or police," she said.

"They left Brett Bamford alone in the driveway of the house. By daylight he was still there."

Ms Telfer said that just before he was shot, Mr Bamford was standing around with a
group of people at the Davoren Park property when both Jones and Lane walked up the driveway.

Jones produced a sawn-off rifle and Mr Bamford heard to say: "Oh no" or "What did I
do?", just before the gun went off and he fell to the ground, the jury of seven women
and five men have been told.

Both Jones and Lane have pleaded not guilty to the murder charge.

The trial continues.

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KEYWORD: JONES

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