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October 4th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Updated: 23:57, Monday October 3, 2011
A fatal bashing victim was trying to break up a fight outside a Melbourne hotel when he was king-hit, an inquest has heard.
Shannon McCormack, 22, struck his head on a concrete wall and then on the ground after he intervened in a fight outside the Queens Bridge Hotel (QBH) in Southbank in May 2007.
He suffered serious head injuries, but did not seek hospital attention straight away. He died days later in hospital after several operations.
An inquest into his death heard on Monday his attacker’s identity was unknown.
Friend Michael Novak said he and Mr McCormack were ‘very drunk’ and looking to catch a taxi home about 4am (AEST) after a night out at the QBH nightclub.
Mr Novak said a fight was sparked when a young man made a crude remark about his girlfriend and he told him to stop.
He said the man asked if he wanted to fight and then a group of other young men began approaching him and Mr McCormack.
‘I remember two of these guys trying to punch me, and Shannon came to help me and was trying to split everything up.’
Mr Novak said he ran from the men and later found Mr McCormack being tended by security guards at the hotel car park.
He had a cut on his head, but was insisting he was OK and didn’t want to go to hospital.
The security guards gave him band aids and Mr Novak, Mr McCormack and their two female friends caught a taxi home.
Shauna Bradley, Mr Novak’s then girlfriend, told the inquest a young man had called out to her and her friend, Jenna Mullinger, before Mr Novak began shoving and yelling with him.
She said Mr McCormack, who by nature was a protective person, got between them. ‘Four or five of the guy’s friends ran over, then Shannon got hit,’ she said.
‘There was like five of them so it could’ve been any of the five of them.’
Ms Mullinger said the young man had whistled and said something along the lines of ‘Look at those legs’ or ‘Look at that bum’.
Bill McCormack told reporters he had hoped someone would come forward with information about his son’s attacker.
Police posted a $100,000 reward in 2009.
‘You would’ve thought that there’s a group of young men there, some of them weren’t involved,’ Mr McCormack said.
‘The police have offered a very substantial reward, you would’ve thought that someone needed a new car or house deposit by now. ‘I think it just goes down to what sort of man you are.’
Mr McCormack said the family hoped the inquest would lead to Melbourne becoming a safer city for young people at night.
They also wanted more education about the seriousness of head injuries.
The nightclub was closed in 2009.
The inquest continues on Tuesday.
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