Innisfail leg amputation ‘murder’ victim’s family break their silence after circular saw ‘incident’

A Queensland grandfather asked local fishermen to amputate his ‘painful’ leg just months before he died on Saturday after allegedly convincing a fruit picker to cut off his limb with a circular saw.

Daily Mail Australia can reveal pensioner Kalman Tal, 66, was found unconscious outside a seafood takeaway shop at Innisfail, in far north Queensland, suffering horrific injuries and could not be revived. 

Police have charged Vanuatuan man and banana picker John Yalu, 36, with Mr Tal’s murder. It will be alleged Yalu used a circular saw to amputate the elderly man’s leg.  

Mr Tal, a retiree with significant health problems, had been living in Innisfail for several years before his horrific alleged murder.

For last two years, Mr Tal, known around town as a keen fisherman, had been living in a…