Cheap king-hit punch came like lightning, committal hearing for ex-NRL star Craig Field is told Craig Field entering Lismore Court / Picture: Jason O'Brien Source: Supplied IT came "like lightning"- one killer punch, allegedly thrown by ex-NRL star Craig Field, that still haunts a female onlooker to this day. I saw one quick left hook ... I saw a man go down and he never got up again" was how Marie Hamilton described the fatal hit on a cattle farmer in the carpark of a NSW pub. On the opening day of Field's committal hearing in Lismore Local Court on a charge of murder yesterday, Ms Hamilton said: "Every day in my head, I see the same picture and it's not pretty." Craig Field playing for Balmanin in 1999 / Picture: Phil Hillyard Source: News Limited Field, a former South Sydney Rabbitohs skipper who also played for Manly and Wests Tigers, is charged with murdering Tweed farmer Kelvin Kane outside Kingscliff Hotel in July last year. The 40-year-old is jointly charged with Shaun Fathers, 42, who with Field was coaching the Cudgen Hornets on the Tweed Coast. Police allege Field threw the fatal punch but Fathers was a party to the crime. Mr Kane, 50, suffered massive head injuries when he fell to the ground after he was allegedly king hit in the pub carpark. He died in Tweed Heads Hospital a day later after his family made the heart-wrenching decision to turn off his life support. Field and Fathers were initially charged with causing grievous bodily harm but the charges were upgraded to murder after Mr Kane's death. A large number of Mr Kane's relatives and friends, some of them in tears, were at court for the start of the six-day committal hearing. Ms Hamilton and daughter Rhianne Oram, who live in units behind the Kingscliff Hotel, said they heard yelling and screaming coming from the pub carpark. From their third-floor balcony they said they saw a melee involving 10 to 15 people before two men peeled off. "There was pushing, shoving and arguing," Ms Hamilton told the court. Two men went to the right and were arguing. They were having their own little barney. That's when I saw one quick left hook - it was like lightning - and I saw a man go down. said to my daughter 'He's gone down, he's not moving'. It was all so quick. Ms Oram said she saw a woman pushed before the punch was thrown and heard a person laugh after the man went down. "Then everyone was looking at the person who was on the ground," she said. I could hear a man yelling. The investigating officer Detective Sergeant Laurie Moroney told the court that there were "a lot of angry people" at the hospital after Mr Kane was taken in. The committal hearing continues today. Friends and relatives of the victim in the Craig Field case / Picture: Jason O'Brien Source: Supplied ENOUGH is Enough founder Ken Marslew has branded as "insensitive" NSW Attorney-General Greg Smith's comments it was not the punch that killed king-hit victim Thomas Kelly but his head hitting the concrete. "It's like saying it wasn't Michael's murderer that killed him but the bullet," Mr Marslew, whose son was killed in a 1994 pizza shop robbery, said. The Attorney-General came under fire on several fronts yesterday, including not delivering on a 2011 election promise to legislate so that victim impact statements could be taken into account in sentencing. The promised laws could have delivered a harsher sentence than the four years handed to Mr Kelly's killer Kieran Loveridge last week over the July 2012 death. Mr Smith also was forced in parliament to apologise - when asked to by Opposition Leader John Robertson - to Mr Kelly's parents after he told Radio 2UE on Tuesday that: "It wasn't the punch that killed him, it was the hit on the back of the head on the concrete "If I have offended the Kelly family I apologise unreservedly," he said. He has also said Loveridge, 19, should have been charged with manslaughter - to which he pleaded guilty - not murder, as he was originally charged. Mr Smith yesterday promised to consider calls from the Homicide Victims Support Group's Martha Jabour for legislation to ban judges taking into account the remorse of defendants as victim impact statements were being read.