By Gemma Jones
November 21, 2008 12:00am
A DAY after war veteran Ernest Evans was laid to rest the alleged 50 cent thug who is accused of bashing him has shown his contempt, declaring: "Go to hell."
Kristopher Cowie, 30, today said the six weeks of hell Mr Evans endured, including a return of horrific post war trauma and injuries which never healed before his death last Friday, was "not my problem.''
He then raised his middle finger to a news photographer and shoved him in the chest outside Downing Centre Local Court.
Ernest Evans' funeral: Bashed digger laid to rest.
Cowie is accused of punching Mr Evans, 83, as he sat on a park bench outside St Vincent De Paul at Miranda, where his wife was shopping for a war history book for him last month.
"My apologies for their loss, it has got nothing to do with me,'' a slurring and unsteady Cowie said as he prepared to face Downing Centre Local Court on unrelated charges.
"Not my problem.''
When asked if he had a drug problem, Cowie shot back, "No, none of your business and no I don't so you can go to hell.'' He then expressed his dismay at featuring on the front page of The Daily Telegraph minutes after he had thanked a magistrate for releasing him on bail last month. He had already been on bail for other offences. "Putting me on the front page of The Daily Telegraph....you are a bitch,'' he said.
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Police allege Cowie demanded 50 cents from Mr Evans before returning with girlfriend Tracey Prater, 29 and punching him, sending him flying over the bench.
She allegedly threatened Mr Evans elderly wife Una.
Mr Evans died, six weeks after the attack, with the leg lacerations he suffered never healing and tormented from nightmares in which he would yell: "The bastard wants 50 cents.''
The night terrors he had suffered after the war in which he would jump up and try to shield his mates from Japanese fire also returned.
Cowie was appearing on unrelated charges relating to an airport offence and Sheriffs had to come to the court while he appeared.
When he saw them, Cowie began barking at them.
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