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September 12th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Millionaire businessman Craig Puddy vanished from his Mt Pleasant mansion on May 3 2010.
Cameron Mansell murdered wealthy businessman Craig Puddy because he was under suspicion of having stolen money from a pub the pair were running, the state prosecutor told Perth’s Supreme Court today.
He also claimed Mr Mansell murdered Mr Puddy by bludgeoning him to death with a blunt weapon in his luxurious Mt Pleasant home early in May last year.
Cameron James Mansell, 39, was in business with Mr Puddy since being called in as one of the directors of a pub in the Perth suburb of Crawley since 2009, a Supreme Court jury was told.
The Basement on Broadway pub had a number of investors, but it was Mr Puddy who put in $700,000 to get it running, while Mr Mansell managed it.
Prosecutor Bruno Fiannaca told the jury that from December 2009 to May 2010 the pub’s finances had run into so much trouble that the National Australia Bank was planning to foreclose on its lease.
Mr Fiannaca said conversations between Mr Puddy and his business partner Martin Rogers revealed that they believed Mr Mansell had mismanaged the business and was even stealing from it.
It got to a point where the two directors were planning on speaking to police, he said.
Mr Fiannaca said it all came to a head on Saturday, May 3 last year when Mr Puddy made an unexpected visit to the pub and examined its safe.
He said Mr Puddy rang Mr Mansell angry about the lack of money in the safe, and later that day, Mr Mansell appeared to withdraw $7500 from his account to pay back the missing money.
Mr Fiannaca also told the court that Mr Mansell had taken $170,000 in unsecured funds from his clients belonging to his other business, Dolphin Financial Management, and wasted the money, so he could not afford for the pub to go into liquidation.
“For the accused more was at stake than just losing a job… [he] had to account to his clients about their funds, Mr Fiannaca said.
“[If the pub] went into liquidation and he would be in debt $170,000, a debt he could not pay.”
Mr Fiannaca said the night that Mr Puddy disappeared, the last person to see him alive was his mother after she left the house just after 6pm.
Mr Fiannaca claimed that Mr Mansell came over later that night to discuss the financial situation.
“This was a volatile situation. The person within which the fuse was lit may never be known,” Mr Fiannaca said.
He said Mr Puddy was struck violently to the head in the kitchen of his home.
“[He was] struck to the head with a blunt object at least once while he was standing and at least another time when he was on the ground.”
A blood spatter expert will give evidence that blood was found on the kitchen bench, a chopping board and an overhanging bulk head, where the person would have had to be standing for it to reach so high, according to Mr Fiannaca.
He said it was also found on a wall where a telephone was attached and adjoining cupboards.
Forensic experts will also be called in to testify about two different sets of shoe prints, which the prosecution alleges were Mr Puddy’s and those of his assailant.
Mr Fianacca said Mr Puddy’s body was disposed of by being dragged out of the house in a wheelie bin and the house was cleaned to try and remove evidence that he had been killed there.
He said the body has never been found and it would be up to the jury to decide if he was dead.
“I speak of the intention on part of the accused man [to inflict injuries] of such a kind as to likely to endanger his life… [and] disposed of Mr Puddy’s body in a place not known …but it’s like looking for a needle in a hay stack,” Mr Fiannaca said.
The trial continues.
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