Canadian bashed

From the Heraldsun 17/8/10 by Mark Dunn and titled Dreams die in Gutter.
BY the age of 25 Cain Aguiar had achieved more than most; he had obtained a commercial pilot's licence, a business degree and had recently earned his accreditation as a financial adviser.
The young Canadian was in Melbourne looking to start a new career and build his life in Australia, where he had also been granted citizenship.
But his dreams ended in the gutter outside Yarraville's Blarney Stone pub.
The Supreme Court heard on Monday that shortly after he was brutally bashed and kicked to death in July 2009, his mother found a simple entry on his Blackberry phone: "There is no greater cause than peace," he had written.
But there could be no greater difference between that simple philosophy and the aggression inflicted upon Mr Aguiar, his head stomped in as he lay unconscious and one of his attackers sneering "welcome to Australia".
"Cain is neither a statistic nor just another victim of random violence but a beloved son and brother," his distraught mother Issy Aguiar told the court.
"As for me, his mother, I feel like a giant hand has reached into my body and pulled a piece of my heart out."
Mrs Aguiar said she and husband Tony had endured a year filled with fear, rage and sadness. "For the first time in 30 years we did not put up a Christmas tree, exchange gifts or be with friends, as we could not bear the thought that Cain was not there," she said.
Unemployed man Fostar Akoteu, 23, born in Australia to Tongan parents, pleaded guilty to Mr Aguiar's manslaughter - a premeditated, unprovoked attack sparked by Akoteu's jealousy that the victim was talking to a female friend of his at the bar.
Sioeli Seau, 20, a New Zealand-born labourer, pleaded guilty to assaulting Mr Aguiar before the victim was "king-hit" by another man and was then kicked and stomped on by Akoteu.
Justice Simon Whelan hopes to sentence Akoteu and Seau on Friday