A Sydney plumber has been sentenced to 18 years in prison in Bali for organizing a hit squad that killed a man in a luxury villa, a sentence longer than the two men who carried out the shooting. The Indonesian Supreme Court upheld the extended sentence for Darcy Jenson, 28, on July 3, following his appeal against an initial 17-year term.
Jenson did not enter the villa where Zivan Radmanovic, 32, was killed in June 2025. He was responsible for coordinating the logistics for the attack, which was executed by Mevlut Coskun, 23, and Paea I Middlemore Tupou, 27. Coskun received a 16-year sentence, and Tupou was sentenced to 17 years. None of the men will face the death penalty.
The trio's sentences were reviewed after they appealed the terms initially handed down by the High Court. Jenson's legal team argued the initial ruling contained serious errors, while Coskun and Tupou also appealed their 16-year sentences.
During their trial, the three men testified that they were hired to collect a debt from another individual, Sanar Ghanim, who was staying in the same villa. They claimed they mistakenly targeted Radmanovic after breaking into the villa. The men refused to identify the Australian who hired them.
Ghanim was subjected to a violent assault and shot multiple times, while Radmanovic was beaten with a sledgehammer and fatally shot. Both Radmanovic and Ghanim had connections to Melbourne's criminal underworld. Radmanovic and Ghanim were on holiday in Bali with their partners to celebrate Radmanovic's wife's 30th birthday. His wife, Jazmyn Gourdeas, hid during the attack.
Coskun, Jenson, and Tupou were apprehended in the days following the incident. Jenson, a graduate of St. Patrick's College in Strathfield, reportedly traveled to Bali days before Coskun and Tupou. Prior to his arrest, Jenson operated a plumbing business in Sydney, which he deregistered in March 2025, shortly before his trip to Bali. He also played Australian rules football for the Parramatta Goannas before his departure.
