Jai Abberton

Jai Abberton is an Australian former professional surfer from Maroubra in the south-east of Sydney, born around 1973. He is one of four Abberton brothers, with Koby, Sunny and Dakota, and a member of the Bra Boys, a surf group from Maroubra. He rose to local prominence in 2005, when he was charged with the 2003 murder of Anthony Hines and found not guilty, after his defence established reasonable doubt on the basis of his account that he shot Hines to protect himself and his girlfriend. He was later convicted in absentia of a separate matter at Byron Bay and fined. Together with his brothers he achieved national and international attention in 2007 with the release of the feature-length documentary Bra Boys: Blood is Thicker than Water, written and directed by members of the group.