Jennifer Kohl inquest: Paul Tunik claimed he had intercourse along with his girlfriend earlier than she was crushed to dying in a freak mower accident. Then he refused to return to Australia and provides solutions. Now he will be unmasked for the primary time

A vacationer who was behind the wheel of a ride-on lawnmower that toppled over and killed his younger backpacker lover will be unmasked for the primary time – as a Coroner finds he’s suspected of committing a critical crime.

Each day Mail Australia has obtained the primary footage of Paul Tunik, 27, posing along with his girlfriend, Jennifer Kohl, 27, at Sydney Harbour, weeks earlier than she was killed in an obvious freak accident on a farm in Queensland in December, 2017.

Mr Tunik, who was on the farm to choose fruit with Ms Kohl, instructed authorities the lovers had intercourse on a secluded space of the farm that fateful day. 

He instructed witnesses he ‘coaxed’ her into taking a joyride on the ride-on mower as a ‘romantic gesture’, the inquest heard.

Nonetheless, the ride-on mower overturned as they went down a slope, crushing and killing Ms Kohl. 

Mr Tunik failed to offer proof at a coronial inquest into Ms Kohl’s dying – regardless of the presence of her grieving mom – and has left Australia.

In findings launched final month, Queensland Coroner Carol Lee discovered she ‘had an inexpensive suspicion that an indictable offence had been dedicated by Mr Tunik’ and has referred the matter to the Director of Public Prosecutions.

She famous there have been ‘inconsistencies’ in his varied accounts of what occurred however discovered a pointy flip made by Mr Tunik as he drove the mower down a slope brought about it to roll and lure her. 

Ms Kohl’s mom Cornelia is demanding justice after Mr Tunik was not current on the inquest and moved abroad to New Zealand.

She has challenged a number of particulars about what occurred on the day and refuses to just accept the pair had intercourse.

Ms Kohl had arrived in Australia from Germany in February 2017 on a working vacation with Mr Tunik earlier than discovering work on the avocado farm in December. 

Cornelia stated the couple had fled to Australia after being threatened by a gang within the German metropolis of Leipzig.

‘Every single day I endure from the lack of my daughter and easily can not perceive that she is not there,’ she stated.

‘I’ve to take care of it on their own as a result of my divorced husband and my son distance themselves and say she is lifeless and nothing will carry her again, however I’m preventing for justice and Jenny’s dying shouldn’t have been in useless.’

In her findings, the coroner dominated that Ms Kohl and Mr Tunik had completed their work for the day once they went to an unused and out-of-sight space of the property the place Mr Tunik claimed that they had intercourse.

Mr Tunik then coaxed Ms Kohl to experience again with him on the four-by-four ride-on mower that had a trailer connected to it as a part of a ‘romantic gesture’.

Mr Tunik was driving the mower with Ms Kohl on the wheel arch once they went down a steep slope and rolled.

Ms Kohl was trapped below the mower and regardless of Mr Tunik’s efforts to take away the heavy piece of commercial gear and name for assist, she was unable to be saved.

A two-day inquest into Ms Kohl’s dying was held in Could final 12 months, with Coroner Lee handing down her findings in December.

‘I’ve fashioned an inexpensive suspicion that an indictable offence has been dedicated by Mr Tunik,’ she stated.

‘Not having obtained a submission from Mr Tunik after affording him a possibility to make a submission, I make a referral to the Workplace of the Director of Public Prosecutions.’

Mr Tunik didn’t present proof on the inquest however did converse to Work Well being and Security investigators. That investigation was discontinued.

‘Consequently, I discover that Mr Tunik and Ms Kohl had accomplished the work that had been assigned to them on the day of the accident and had engaged in sexual activity in a disused and out of sight a part of the property, on a joyride pretending the property was theirs,’ Coroner Lee stated.

‘Such exercise on the mower was unauthorised and in departure from the directions given to them.’

On the time of the incident, there was a delay in emergency providers arriving on the scene partially as a consequence of Mr Tunik’s restricted English when he rang Triple Zero.

Mr Tunik flagged down passing vehicles however even with the assistance of three bystanders Ms Kohl couldn’t be freed.

Coroner Lee discovered the farm’s co-owners, Kathryn Singleton and Kenneth Jacobi, had supplied enough instruction and supervision to the 2 adults for utilizing the mower and trailer in designated areas.

The farm homeowners had stated that Mr Tunik had instructed them he ‘coaxed’ his girlfriend into sitting on the mower with him, regardless of her telling him she didn’t wish to.

In her findings, Coroner Lee advisable the Division of Dwelling Affairs arrange a ‘one cease store’ web site for vacation staff to advise them of office well being and security in addition to their statutory rights in Australia.

The coroner expressed her honest condolences to Ms Kohl’s household over the tragic accident.

‘Her dying has had an influence on many individuals, particularly her mom who travelled from Germany for the inquest,’ she stated.