Jailed NRL player Manase Fainu learns fate in appeal over church stabbing
A former NRL star found guilty of stabbing a church youth leader outside a Mormon charity dance in Sydney’s southwest has learnt his fate after a daring bid to overturn his sentence.
Manase Vehikite Am Fainu was sentenced last year to at least four years and three months behind bars. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Christian GillesFainu did not appear via AVL on Friday at the Supreme Court of NSW where the court was told justices Mark Leeming, Natalie Adams and Hament Dhanji had dismissed his appeal.
The 24-year-old’s barrister, Mike Smith, last month called into question whether Fainu had been in possession of the knife at the time of the stabbing or if it could have been someone else. In their written judgment, the justices acknowledged that Fainu had given an account of the night in which he did not participate at all in the melee, which had begun after an earlier disagreement.
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