
THE CCTV camera perched on the wall in the dark laneway outside a brothel in Newcastle's CBD captured the frantic and unprovoked attack, 15 seconds of chaos that could have ended with one man dead and another charged with murder.
It is about 3.35am on January 19 last year and the two victims, Nepalese nationals working as chefs at Newcastle's Sapphire Indian Restaurant, walk down narrow Devonshire Street and out of shot before they are followed by Dominic Lagudi.