Sydney sports agent questioned after Kingaroy man found dead Kingaroy's Club Hotel where the scuffle allegedly took place on on Thursday night. A KINGAROY man found dead in a park earlier had been allegedly involved in a bar-room altercation with a leading NRL player manager. Sydney-based player agent Paul Sutton, of SFX Sports, is the subject of a police investigation after the man in his early 40s was found dead in a park off Fisher St, Kingaroy about 7am Friday. The discovery came after a pub scuffle at the Club Hotel around 9pm the previous night, when the deceased and the player manager are alleged to have clashed. It is not known if the death of the man is linked to the earlier altercation. The deceased's body was transported to Brisbane yesterday for an autopsy. Kingaroy detectives have quizzed Mr Sutton and taken formal statements from other NRL managers and pub patrons who were present during the altercation. Club Hotel management yesterday confirmed Kingaroy police were in possession of CCTV footage of the dispute. An eyewitness told The Sunday Mail Mr Sutton did not throw a punch, but was forced to react after the deceased allegedly lashed out. "The player manager is not at fault, he was defending himself against a punch," said an onlooker, who did not wish to be identified. I know exactly what happened, I was there and I saw the whole incident. The (deceased) made an accusation that the agent commented that Kingaroy girls are ugly. He took offence to that and started abusing the player manager. There was a scuffle a short time later and the (deceased) ended up on the floor. The eyewitness claims the deceased stood up and sat on a chair, then walked around briefly before leaving the pub alone. There were a group of player managers but none, from what I saw, were intoxicated at the time. He (the deceased) walked out of the hotel. He was initially sitting up, then he walked around the beer garden and five minutes later he left the hotel. The man was found dead about 10 hours later off Fisher St, 1.9km from the Club Hotel.