NSW: Murdered for wanting quiet

Sydney Morning Herald
January 7, 2007

A YOUNG father was stabbed to death after he asked a group of rowdy pubgoers to be quiet because he had to get up early for work.

Sione Matavesi, 22, was asleep at a friend's house in Mount Pritchard at 1.30am yesterday when a group of people standing in the street outside woke him up.

The group, who apparently had been drinking at a nearby hotel, had been arguing and yelling at the top of the driveway of the North Liverpool Road house, witnesses said ...

Sam Wraide, who lives in the house opposite where the attack took place, said the victim left the house and told the group to be quiet.

"He said to them to keep the noise down," Mr Wraide said. "He told them that he had to start work at 6am and needed to get some sleep." The group then turned on the victim, punching and kicking him, before he was stabbed several times in the chest and head.

He was treated at the scene by ambulance officers and taken to Liverpool Hospital but died soon after ...

NSW Police Minister John Watkins said yesterday he would look at ways of curbing the rising number of street attacks ...

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