Former NRL rising star Manase Fainu is challenging a jury's verdict that he stabbed a church youth leader outside a Mormon charity event in Sydney. 9News
was found guilty in August last year of wounding Faamanu Levi with intent to cause grievous bodily harmHe received a maximum jail sentence of eight years in December with a non-parole period of four years and three months.Former NRL rising star Manase Fainu is challenging a jury's verdict that he stabbed a church youth leader outside a Mormon charity event in Sydney.
His challenge to what he claims was an "unreasonable" verdict came briefly before the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal on Thursday.At that time, Fainu will only seek to overturn the verdict.In last year's jury trial, one witness testified to seeing Fainu plunge a steak knife into the back of Levi in the car park brawl, referring to him looking angry and wearing a sling.The jury was told the footballer had recently undergone shoulder surgery and had his arm in a sling that evening.
The stabbing occurred after an earlier fight on the dancefloor of the alcohol-free charity event organised by the Church of the Latter Day Saints. The jurors were told Fainu and a friend known as "Big Buck" were involved in the fight and ushered outside by Levi, who told them not to fight on church grounds.CCTV footage showed Fainu with a white towel draped over his head and his four friends jumping back over a fence and into a car park where the brawl occurred with Levi.However, this was all lost once he was charged after the assault, thanks to the NRL's no-fault-stand down policy.
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