Gold Coast chip brawl death: Read the harrowing victim impact statement from a ... trends now

Gold Coast chip brawl death: Read the harrowing victim impact statement from a ... trends now
Gold Coast chip brawl death: Read the harrowing victim impact statement from a ... trends now

Gold Coast chip brawl death: Read the harrowing victim impact statement from a ... trends now

Unable to speak English, Jane Susin often did not understand what was happening as her son lay in a coma at a Gold Coast hospital.

Yet for 10 days she remained by his side 'waiting for the slightest sign'.

She had flown in from Brazil after Ivan Patricio Susin was punched outside a Surfers Paradise kebab shop by Ricky Kevin Lefoe in October 2019.

Her 29-year-old son had fallen and suffered head injuries after being struck when a brawl erupted over stolen hot chips.

The family could afford just one plane ticket so Mrs Susin took her first international flight after being notified of the serious assault.

Ivan Patricio Susin was punched outside a Surfers Paradise kebab shop by Ricky Kevin Lefoe in October 2019

Ivan Patricio Susin was punched outside a Surfers Paradise kebab shop by Ricky Kevin Lefoe in October 2019

When Mrs Susin arrived, she hoped to 'find my son smiling'.

'I found my son unconscious, connected to many medical devices ... and in a coma,' she said in a victim impact statement.

She kept a bedside vigil but in the end her son was declared brain dead.

Mrs Susin had to watch as hospital staff turned off his life support.

'Can you imagine what that means to a mother?' she said.

Three years after losing a daughter in a car accident, Mrs Susin helped organise a Gold Coast wake for her son that her husband had to watch online.

By then, her daughter Joseane was by her side.

She had organised a flight from Brazil after being told her brother would 'probably not survive'.

'The night before my flight I received the news that my brother was brain dead - from that moment on I began my journey of pain,' she said in a statement.

Mr Susin's parents and Joseane on Tuesday watched via video link as Lefoe, 32, was sentenced to eight years' jail for manslaughter in Brisbane Supreme Court

Mr Susin's parents and Joseane on Tuesday

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