Man murdered for his shoes.

A GOLD Coast man may have been murdered for his expensive-looking shoes, police said today.

Paul Markham, 23, died in the Royal Brisbane Hospital yesterday after being bashed at a bus stop outside the Embassy Hotel in central Brisbane early on Sunday.

Detective Inspector Bob Hytch, of the Brisbane Crime Investigation Bureau, today said the man's Diesel brand shoes and other possessions were taken by the two men who bashed him and left him for dead.

The pair was spotted later on several inner-city video surveillance cameras.

”They are casually strolling down Albert Street and one of them has the pair of white sand shoes which we believe belonged to the deceased," Det Insp Hytch said.


Mr Markham was believed to have borrowed the shoes from a friend who had bought them overseas.

The shoes were not available in Australia and were likely to be an Asian copy of the genuine designer brand, Insp Hytch said.

Article: Heruld Sun