Man dies, brother charged with assault and third man charged with murder
A SYDNEY man has been charged with murder after the life support of his alleged victim was switched off. A second man has been charged with assault.
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THEY posed together for many a family portrait but now one Hunuki brother is dead, the other is behind bars on assault charges and a third man has been charged with murder.
Detectives are trying to untangle the violent chaos which led to the stabbing death of 27-year-old William Hunuki inside a small Bankstown flat in the early hours yesterday.
William was wheeled out of the Meredith St apartment complex on an ambulance bed, with stab wounds to his arm and abdomen, shortly after 3am yesterday.
At 9pm his life support was switched off in Liverpool Hospital.
Mr Hunuki’s younger brother Filisione Hunuki, 23, and another man who lived at the unit, Alexander John Dunleavy, 27, were arrested and taken to Bankstown Police Station.
Filisione was charged with one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm against his brother William and allegedly also assaulted Dunleavy’s defacto partner.
Police allege in court documents that Filisione, from Hebersham, also tried to intimidate Dunleavy with a “black handled bread carving knife”.
Dunleavy was charged with murdering William and assaulting a police officer.
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Police would not elaborate today on why Filisione would allegedly have assaulted his brother and the woman inside the flat or what Dunleavy’s motive was in allegedly murdering William.
Filisione was understood to have been in a de facto relationship with the sister of the woman he allegedly assaulted.
Neighbours described loud noises coming from the flat throughout the night, until an argument erupted around the time of the stabbing.
“We heard a lot of noises … Like somebody having a party or something,” neighbour Monirun Islam said.
“Next morning we heard someone had been injured here … Now we feel a bit scared.”
Another neighbour said they saw a man standing in the stairwell of the unit block, wildly gesturing at someone standing in the doorway.
Residents inside the three-storey complex said Dunleavy was a polite and hardworking labourer who had not caused trouble in the past.
“I think he’s a bricklayer, or a labourer, he’s very hard working,” one neighbour said.
A large group of the brothers’ distressed relatives were in Parramatta Court today, where Filisione was formally refused bail to appear at Bankstown Court on Tuesday.
Dunleavy did not appear on the screen inside the court, where his case was adjourned to Bankstown Local Court on September 26