Widow's birthday horror as Australian father shot dead in Bali
The shattered wife of an Australian man shot dead in Bali says he was 'loving' and the 'best dad in the world'.
Jazmyn Gourdeas was with her husband Zivan Radmanovic, 32, when gunmen stormed the couple's villa and opened fire on the night of June 13.
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It has left her a widow and their six children without a father.
'My husband was a loving man and the best dad in the world,' Gourdeas said through her lawyer Sary Latief.
'Now I have (to do) the unimaginable (and return) home to tell them he's no longer here.'
The couple had been in Bali to celebrate Gourdeas' 30th birthday, and it was the first time they had travelled overseas together, Latief said.
Instead the widow marked the milestone by visiting his body in a Bali morgue.
'I can't describe how she was feeling. Obviously it's not something you want to do,' Latief said.
The Melbourne couple's children remain separated from Gourdeas, because she is still in Indonesia waiting to repatriate her husband's body.
'Being away from the kids, from the moment that this incident happened, all she could think about was them,' Latief said. Jazmyn Gourdeas was set to celebrate her 30th birthday in Bali with husband Zivan Radmanovic before he was gunned down. Credit: 7NEWS Radmanovic (left) was fatally shot, while Sanar Ghanim (right) was injured in the incident. Credit: Supplied Lawyer Sary Latief said her client is desperate to return to her six children. Credit: 7NEWS
The couple were getting ready for bed when gunmen stormed Villa Casa Santisya in Munggu, in Bali's Badung Regency, and opened fire.
Latief said her client only got a tiny look at the killers, saying she saw a 'black helmet and a glimpse of the jacket and that's it',
'(Gourdeas) said, I don't understand what's going on... She wants to know, (she wants) closure,' the lawyer said.
Radmanovic's friend Sanar Ghanim, 34, was also shot but was not critically injured in the attack.
Three Australian men are in the custody of Indonesian police but a motive has not been revealed.
All three could face the death penalty if convicted, authorities said.
Latief said police are being very thorough and it should not be long before Gourdeas can head home with her husband's body.
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