Members of the Papuan community living in the Papua New Guinea capital say they fear for their safety after the murder of a senior court magistrate at the weekend.

It is alleged a group of Papuan refugees stoned the judge to death after he crashed his car near their make shift camp site.

Our PNG Correspondent Steve Marshall reports PNG police expect to charge at least six Papuan men over the death of magistrate Ivo Cappo at the weekend.

The magistrate was a well known figure in Port Moresby and Papuan community leaders like John Norotouw fear revenge attacks.

"We Papuans in Papua New Guinea we're all threatened. We all want peace to be held all the time."

Mr Norotouw says the attack was not politically motivated in this particular Papuan groups bid for self rule from Indonesia.