POLICE are helping the family of an Australian engineer, killed in a fight outside a Wan Chai club, to seek funds through the Government's crime victim compensation schemes.
The parents of Gary Tait buried their 34-year-old son in his home town of Claremont, near Perth in Western Australia, on Friday.
The Chek Lap Kok site project manager and former Australian Rules footballer died in Queen Mary Hospital on April 29 after being beaten into a coma outside the New Pussy Cat nightclub on his first night out since the birth of his first child.
His alleged assailant, British army champion boxing instructor Warrant Officer Barry Peter Miller, turned himself in to British authorities on Friday night to face a Hong Kong extradition warrant.
Miller returned to Britain two days after the incident.
Tait's common-law wife, Thai-born Somphit Phathaisong, has left for Perth with their daughter Prissanna, and has applied to Australian Immigration for a two-year unconditional stay pending her request for citizenship.