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September 12th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Updated: 06:46, Tuesday September 13, 2011
The defence will open up its case today in the murder trial of multimillionaire Perth businessman Craig Puddy.
In court proceedings yesterday, it was heard that the bar manager accused of murdering a multimillionaire businessman forged his ID to run away from police.
Cameron James Mansell, 39, is on trial over the murder of Craig Puddy, 45, who has not been seen since May 3 last year, when it is alleged he was murdered in his luxurious home at Mt Pleasant in Perth’s south.
In his opening address on Monday, prosecutor Bruno Fiannaca told the court Mr Puddy was hit across the head with a blunt object at least twice before his body was put in a wheelie bin and disposed of at an unknown location.
The court was told Mr Puddy was the part-owner of a bar called Basement on Broadway, in which he had invested $700,000 and Mansell was the manager of the establishment in the Perth suburb of Crawley.
Between December 2009 and May 2010 the bar ran into financial trouble, and the National Australia Bank was planning to foreclose on the lease.
Mr Fiannaca said Mr Puddy confronted Mansell and the pair had a ‘heated discussion’ as Mr Puddy expressed ‘frustration and anger’ over the situation.
Mr Puddy and his business partner, Martin Rogers, believed Mansell had been mismanaging the bar, which had stopped paying its cleaner and owed $80,000 to a plumber, the prosecutor said.
The partners also believed Mansell was stealing money from the pub’s safe and that belief had ‘soured’ their working relationship, Mr Fiannaca said.
Mr Fiannaca said Mansell stood to lose more than his job because he had invested $170,000 in the bar from clients of his financial planning business Dolphin Financial Management, leaving him with a large debt he could not meet.
The court was told Mansell murdered Mr Puddy, placed his body in a wheelie bin and put it in his Jeep Cherokee, which he later burned.
Mr Fiannaca said Mansell put Mr Puddy’s wallet and keys in a tea towel and dumped it in another bin.
He then booked a one-way flight out of Perth under the fake name, Gavin Jones, on May 12, the court heard.
Mr Fiannaca said Mansell flew to Adelaide and then caught trains until he reached Townsville and stayed with an aunt and uncle for several days.
He eventually tried to obtain some fake ID by forging signatures and went camping in the bush, which is where police found him on May 25 after a phone call from Mansell’s cousin.
Mr Fiannaca said Mansell’s story about what happened the night Mr Puddy disappeared was inconsistent.
In one version, he claimed three men came to the house and bashed Mr Puddy in the kitchen.
‘They (the offenders) were on adrenaline or something, mate, because they just got carried away,’ Mr Fiannaca quoted Mansell.
Mansell said the last time he saw Mr Puddy ‘he was in pretty bad nick’ but was still alive.
Mr Fiannaca said evidence would be heard during the trial from several witnesses, including a runner who saw Mansell at Mr Puddy’s house on May 4.
A blood-spatter expert would also give evidence that blood was found on the kitchen bench, a chopping board and an overhanging bulk head, Mr Fiannaca said.
Forensic experts will also testify about two sets of shoe prints, which the prosecution alleges belong to Mr Puddy and Mansell.
Mansell’s defence lawyer Anthony Eyres will make an opening address to the jury on Tuesday.
195435 20110912 AEST
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