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A Melbourne court has heard a brothel worker offered the family of a man he killed $20,000 in hush money.
Abraham Papo, 28, was bludgeoned to death with a tyre lever outside Madam Leona's brothel in South Melbourne in 2009.
De Jun Zheng, 37, is on trial for murder.
The court heard Mr Papo mistakenly believed his Korean girlfriend was being made to work as a prostitute against her will.
The jury was told he went to the brothel demanding to know where she was, before he punched Zheng and fled the premises.
Zheng then allegedly ran after Mr Papo and beat him up to six times with a tyre lever as he sat in his car.
The prosecution told the court the next day Zheng offered $20,000 in hush money to Mr Papo's family.
Zheng maintains he acted in self-defence.
The trial continues.
Topics: murder-and-manslaughter, crime, law-crime-and-justice, prostitution, south-melbourne-3205, vic, australia
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