Indonesian police Friday detained an Australian woman and a British man over the brutal murder of a policeman on a popular Bali beach.
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Since then police had been searching for Connor, from Byron Bay, and the man.
“I have never been to Bali, never in my life”.
Sudarsa’s body was found early in the morning on Wednesday on Kuta Beach in front of Pullman Hotel, still wearing his police uniform, with some of his belongings scattered around his body.
Handcuffed, Australian woman Sara Connor arrives at Denpasar police station where she has been detained over the death of a Balinese policeman. Gen. Sugeng Priyanto said statements from nine witnesses led to the arrests.
Authorities initially told reporters they were looking for Connor along with a man called Thomas Schon.
Sanglah Hospital morgue chief Dr Dudut Rustyadi said the autopsy revealed that Wayan Sudarsa was hit repeatedly and that he had what appeared to be defensive wounds to his left and right hands. The smashed remains of a beer bottle were found near his head.
Police at the scene in Bali.
Police were forced to plaster posters of the couple across police stations and hotels in an effort to find them, eventually alerted to their presence at the Australian Consulate.
Witnesses said they saw a man with dreadlocks – like Taylor – arguing with a police officer, according to Priyanto.
“One of the ojek drivers saw [a foreign man] at the scene – he was seen covered in sand”, he said.
A cleansing ceremony has been held on Kuta beach at the place where the police inspector died.
Ms Conner’s bag and driver’s license along with a credit card were allegedly found at the crime scene.
He said blood found last night in a nearby hotel room, where Connor and Taylor had been staying at the Kubu Kauh Beach Inn, was yet to be analysed. He wasn’t alone, he was with a woman. I am sure.”I asked him: ‘You check out?’ He said ‘Yes.’ They weren’t in a hurry, they were relaxed”.
A security officer at the Pullman Hotel told police he heard screaming at about 1.15am on the Wednesday and went down to the beach. It wasn’t a scream for help, just a scream, arrgggghhhhh, something like that. “I’m anxious for my friends”.
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