Kerri-Anne Kennerley's husband John to blame for gold club fall, resort argues

'He failed to look where he was going': Golf resort claims Kerri-Anne Kennerley's HUSBAND is to blame for his paralysing fall into a garden bed Kerri-Anne Kennerley's husband's estate launches legal battle over his fall  Golf course says it wasn't negligent in John Kennerley's death -but he was '(Any injury) was caused or contributed to by the plaintiff's own negligence'

By Daniel Piotrowski for Daily Mail Australia

Published: 05:00 BST, 27 June 2019 | Updated: 05:07 BST, 27 June 2019

The golf course where Kerri-Anne Kennerley's husband John fell into a garden bed leaving him permanently paralysed has blamed the accident on Mr Kennerley's 'own negligence'.

The TV star's husband fell from a balcony at the Bonville International Golf Resort on the evening of March 6, 2016, fracturing his C3 and C4 vertebrae on the garden bed 57cm below. 

Mr Kennerley was paralysed from the neck down and died in March this year, age 78. His estate is suing the golf club's parent company for unspecified damages over 'negligence'. 

But the resort's lawyers alleged in a NSW Supreme Court filing that Mr Kennerley had failed to look where he was walking and if he was injured, it's his fault - at least in part. 

Kerri-Anne Kennerley's husband John was partially paralysed after he fell into a garden bed at a Coffs Harbour, NSW, gold resort, a court heard

Kerri-Anne Kennerley's husband John was partially paralysed after he fell into a garden bed at a Coffs Harbour, NSW, gold resort, a court heard

John Kennerley fell some 57cm into a garden bed and fractured his C3 and C4 vertebrae at the above golf course

John Kennerley fell some 57cm into a garden bed and fractured his C3 and C4 vertebrae at the above golf course

'The defendant says if the plaintiff suffered injury, loss and damage as alleged,  such injury, loss and damage was caused or contributed to by the plaintiff's own negligence,' the document said.  

The court document - the defence's response's Mr Kennerley's lawyers' statement of claim - alleged John had been negligent in four ways. 

The defence alleged he failed to look where he was walking, failed to keep a proper lookout, failed to take care 'not to step onto an object' - a prize that was on the floor - and was negligent by stepping into a garden bed. 

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