A Perth man accused of murdering a New Zealand man doesn't deny pushing him through a second-storey hotel window to his death, a trial was told yesterday.
The question facing a West Australian Supreme Court jury was whether it was an accident.
On the first day of the murder trial of Stefan Pahia Schmidt, 25, the jury was shown a security video of 29-year-old Tauranga man Andrew Marshall plunging to his death on the evening of May 8 last year.
The film showed a window being dislodged and falling from the second floor of the Ocean Beach Hotel in the Perth suburb of Cottesloe, shattering on the concrete below.
Mr Marshall followed, landing in a crumpled heap on the footpath.