GUILTY Bali - Officer Wayan Sudarsa slain, Australian woman & British BF charged, Aug 2016

[PastTense]

On the other hand they were tourists and tourists have a reputation for engaging in these types of immoral activities. Since tourists bring big money into the economy there is probably a policy of turning a blind eye when tourists engage in this type behavior.

 

[Elainera]

POLICE have recommended that Byron Bay woman Sara Connor and her British boyfriend both face charges of murdering a Balinese police officer.

A brief of evidence was today handed from police to the prosecutors.

Denpasar Prosecutor’s general crime section chief, Ketut Maha Agung, said prosecutors would spend the next seven days examining the briefs of evidence and either hand them back to police for further investigations or accept them.

Whilst the police have recommended what charges should be laid, it is the Prosecutors who decide the charges and they may accept or change the police recommendations.

Four prosecutors have been appointed and the couple will face separate trials.

Murder (unpremeditated) carries a maximum 15-year sentence whilst using violence causing death is a 12-year sentence and assault causing death is a maximum seven year sentence.

http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/s...e/news-story/ebf5889c45bd20d8a492a7382f080a06

 

[Estelle]

I can't help thinking that they could have been making love on the beach and the policeman caught them and told them they he was going to arrest them and the penalty would be so many years in prison.

They had not seen each other for a few months and it was his birthday soon after. Four hours on the beach at that time of the night drinking beer? Only one bottle each? I wonder if drugs or drunkenness was a factor. I guess they thought that nobody was around. I wonder how secluded the area was? Pity David had that beer bottle.

 

[Elainera]

Sara Connor, David Taylor must wait as Indonesian prosecutors say evidence brief ‘incomplete’

AUSTRALIAN woman Sara Connor and her British boyfriend David Taylor will have to wait longer to find out what charges they will face after prosecutors yesterday told police that more work needs to be done on a brief of evidence against them.

Prosecutors have sent a letter to the police notifying them the brief or dossier was incomplete.

Denpasar prosecutors chief, Ketut Maha Agung, said a letter had been sent to police advising they would provide guidance to have the brief completed.

“Because the dossier is still incomplete. There is still a lack on the dossier that has to be completed. There is a lack of some formal and material requirements that have to be completed,” Mr Agung said.

It is not unusual in Indonesia for prosecutors to send the brief of evidence back to police multiple times for further investigation and changes before accepting the case and deciding the charges.

http://www.news.com.au/world/sara-c...e/news-story/b6a497555814939487713a92a02bed2b

 

[PastTense]

Australian mother of two Sara Connor has asked to be moved to a more comfortable Bali jail cell because she is suffering from 'extreme stress'... Ms Connor, who has been living in a 'small dark cell' with another woman, is not coping well with the stress, according to Yahoo News. Her lawyer Erwin Siregar said his client wanted room to exercise and asked that she be moved.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-Bali-jail-cell-suffers-extreme-stress.html

The Australian woman accused of murdering a Balinese police officer will be interrogated again after prosecutors requested more information from Bali police. ABC News reports that it is commonplace in Indonesian courts for prosecutors to return files to police for more information, with Mr Taylor also likely to be-requestioned. Ms Connor's lawyers claim their client will likely be interrogated about the location of Mr Sudarsa's mobile phone, which was found in bushland during a reconstruction of the alleged murder."Today they would like to ask Sara her relation with the mobile phone, it's only that," the ABC quotes Ms Connor's lawyer, Robert Khuna, as saying.

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2016/09/23/18/17/sara-connor-to-be-requestioned-by-police

 

[Elainera]

Aussie Bali murder suspect moved closer to boyfriend in Denpasar jail

September 27, 2016

AUSTRALIAN woman Sara Connor has today been moved into a new cell in the main jail area of Denpasar police station.

The move, at her request, is aimed at allowing her to exercise, get some sun and to socialise with other prisoners.

http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/a...l/news-story/1e2a64dc9f031d3eb6babcdba941a3e6

 

[Elainera]

Sara Connor's boyfriend apologises to family of dead Bali police officer

The boyfriend of Byron Bay woman Sara Connor has "come up with the courage" to apologise to the family of a police officer found dead on Kuta beach.

Mr Taylor's lawyer, Haposan Sihombing, said Mr Taylor told police during a further interrogation on Friday that about two weeks ago he had hand-written a letter to Mr Sudarsa's family to apologise.

"He try to come up with the courage and apologise. He's very sorry, it takes time for him to come up with the courage to apologise because the incident caused the victim his life."

http://www.smh.com.au/world/sara-co...dead-bali-police-officer-20160926-gromfy.html

 

[Elainera]

Sisters claim they heard 'Australians screaming for life' on night Balinese police officer was 'murdered'

Two Sydney sisters claim they heard "Australian voices screaming for their life" while staying in a Bali hotel across the road from where a local police officer was murdered.

Coleen Bowen and Kim Watson told The Courier Mail that they believe the screams they heard while staying at the Pullman Hotel in Bali were related to a fight that lead to the death of police officer Wayan Sudarsa.

Ms Watson and Ms Bowen said they were too scared to tell Balinese authorities about what they heard that night and returned home to tell Australian Federal Police (AFP) to avoid becoming embroiled in the case.

Ms Bown said she and her sister woke to screams of desperation at around 1-1.30am.

Ms Bowen said the voices sounded Australian and said she heard a female scream: “No, no, let him go."

The sisters said they both heard a male voice yell: “No, don’t do that you f-----g c---”

Ms Bowen claimed she "didn’t hear any Indonesian voices" and said the two Australian voices sounded as though they were being attacked.

Peter Strain, Ms Connor's Australian lawyer, said the the sisters' evidence was consistent with what his client has told Balinese police in numerous police interrogations.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/3278412...fe-on-night-wayan-sudarsa-was-murdered/#page1

 

[PastTense]

Australian mother Sara Connor and her British toyboy lover DJ Nutzo to be moved to Bali's notorious Kerobokan prison as they face murder charges...
They will face a string of offences, including murder, carrying a 15-year jail term, violence causing death, with a 12-year maximum, and assault that caused death, which has a seven-year maximum.

Connor will be handed over to prosecutors after police finished their investigation earlier this week, two months after Sudarsa's body was found.

Taylor's lawyer, Robert Khuana, said they would face trial within two or three weeks.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-moved-Bali-s-notorious-Kerobokan-prison.html

 

[Elainera]

Bali police death: Couple Sara Connor and David Taylor move on to Kerobokan jail before trial begins

Connor and her British boyfriend David Taylor were taken to the Denpasar Prosecutor’s office in the first stage of putting them on trial for the death of a Bali police officer.

The couple, who have been detained in police custody since April 19, went to the Denpasar prosecutions office in an official handover of the suspects, indicating their trial will begin within weeks.

Connor, a Byron Bay businesswoman and mum of two boys, made no comment as she was moved from the Denpasar police station under heavy police security this morning.

...

Taylor appeared with his trademark long dreadlocks cut off and also made no comment.

a stressed looking Connor and Taylor held hands as they were escorted together into Bali’s Kerobokan jail, where they will remain until their trial starts.

Connor is said to have been shocked and devastated at learning last week she will face a murder charge after prosecutors announced the brief of evidence against the couple was complete.

After the official handover at the prosecutor’s office the couple will later today be moved, after eight weeks in holding cells at the Denpasar police station, to the chronically overcrowded Kerobokan jail.

At the jail Connor will be kept in the women’s block, where there are currently more than 100 female prisoners, including about 12 foreigners.

Initially Connor will be put into an induction cell, known as Mapenaling cell, for about two weeks, to acclimatise to the jail.

Then she will be moved into the main women’s cells, where she will share a cell with up to 13 other women. The cells are built to house only five prisoners.

Kerobokan prison is more than three times overcapacity, housing more than 1000 prisoners but built for only 323 inmates.

She will sleep on a thin mattress on the floor and share with women who are mostly on drugs charges. British woman Lindsay Sandiford, who is on death row on drug trafficking charges and American Heather Mack, who has been jailed for killing her mother, are both in Kerobokan. Mack’s baby daughter, born in custody, is with her in the jail.

Connor will be allowed to have visitors Monday through to Friday in two sessions — 8.30am-11am and 1-2pm. Visits are in a special visiting room, through bars, and are meant to last only 15 minutes.

Each day someone can bring her food and drop it off at the jail to be delivered.

http://www.news.com.au/world/bali-p...s/news-story/1ce13db85c718fbc6f2e65d5ffa3e25d

 

[PastTense]

Sara Connor murder trial over Bali policeman's death to begin on November 9

The Denpasar District Court websites states the separate trials for Connor and her British DJ boyfriend David Taylor will begin on November 9.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/sara-co...h-to-begin-on-november-9-20161027-gsc93u.html

 

[Elainera]

Trial has started.

Ms Connor, who was teary and seemed confused at times, said she was innocent as parts of her indictment were read out in court.

'I want to object,' she said. Later she told the court 'I am innocent. Please!'

The trial is expected to last for months, with the defendants due to appear before the court a couple of days each week.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...lice-officer-spends-46th-birthday-prison.html




Both have changed dramatically in prison. But David seems to be able to take prison life a bit better than Sara. He is of course also much younger than her.

 

[PastTense]

THE media frenzy that dogged the start of Sara Connor’s murder trial last week is expected fire up again tomorrow when the Australian woman accused of murdering an Indonesian policemen returns to the dock at the Denpasar District Court in Bali.

https://asiancorrespondent.com/2016...inue-aussie-womans-murder-trial-resumes-bali/

 

[SouthAussie]

Sounds as though Sara and her lawyers have given conflicting accounts of her involvement. An eyewitness says she was involved.


Detective Sulhadi said that during one of the interrogation sessions, held after their arrest in August, Ms Connor “confessed” to hitting Mr Sudarsa, sitting on him and wrapping her arm around him during the fight.

But in their lengthy 19-page challenge to the charges, Ms Connor’s lawyers said there was no description of how Ms Connor’s actions caused the death of Mr Sudarsa. “None of the defendant’s statements and witness statements explain that Sara Connor has done the acts as mentioned (in the indictment),” the lawyers submitted.

A witness, Pullman Hotel security guard, Suryana, said in his statement that at about 1.05am on August 17, he went to check the beach after his colleague heard a commotion.
In the statement tendered to court, Suryana claimed he saw Mr Taylor allegedly sitting on the police officer while Ms Connor allegedly had her left arm around the officer’s neck.

http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/s...r/news-story/bf4b105ff932025aa4f1bdf8241a2205

 

[SouthAussie]

"JUDGES in Bali will decide on Thursday whether Byron Bay woman Sara Connor’s murder trial continues or whether she is freed.

Even Connor’s own lawyers admit that the chances of her challenge succeeding are slim but want their objections on the record for future appeals, should they be necessary.

.... Connor’s best chance of beating the main charge, which carries 15 years in jail, appears to be Taylor testifying for her that she was not a player in the death.

All indications are so far that this is what will happen."

http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/world...k=e42c26f78eaafaa7390051b07526b51c-1479744785

 

[SouthAussie]

Oh boy. And now we have another Aussie in deep trouble in Bali. Just a lad ... 18 years old. Suspected drugs. His parents must be so worried.


A Perth teenager suspected of possessing drugs in Bali has spent his first full night in a Kuta police cell.
It is likely to be the first of Jamie Murphy's many nights in detention, after nightclub security guards say they found a small bag of white powder in his bum bag shortly after 1:00am (local time) on Tuesday.
Police suspect it is cocaine.

Footage of Mr Murphy's arrest shows the distraught teenager denying the powder belongs to him.
The police head of Criminal Investigation in Kuta, Ario Seno Wimoko, said Mr Murphy, 18, was still considered "under investigation".

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-...prison-over-suspected-drug-possession/8048852

 

[Alice253]

Oh boy. And now we have another Aussie in deep trouble in Bali. Just a lad ... 18 years old. Suspected drugs. His parents must be so worried.


A Perth teenager suspected of possessing drugs in Bali has spent his first full night in a Kuta police cell.
It is likely to be the first of Jamie Murphy's many nights in detention, after nightclub security guards say they found a small bag of white powder in his bum bag shortly after 1:00am (local time) on Tuesday.
Police suspect it is cocaine.

Footage of Mr Murphy's arrest shows the distraught teenager denying the powder belongs to him.
The police head of Criminal Investigation in Kuta, Ario Seno Wimoko, said Mr Murphy, 18, was still considered "under investigation".

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-...prison-over-suspected-drug-possession/8048852

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-...-fly-home-walks-free-from-bali-prison/8052650

He's freed and going home.

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[Elainera]

Sara Connor loses bid to have case thrown out of Bali court

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2016/...d-to-have-case-thrown-out#gIXpU7cjHbETvHhr.99

 

[PastTense]

Surf board and umbrella rental shop owner Zaenal told Denpasar District Court on Wednesday that he was on his motorbike when he saw British DJ David Taylor at around 1.45am on August 17 on the road running near Kuta Beach. Taylor, he said, was holding a flashlight and was "covered with blood". Zaenal, who is only known by one name, told the court he thought the 35-year-old was drunk and had been a fight so didn't he stop.

Some time that same night, motorbike taxi driver Gede Suartama said a woman stopped him and asked that he take her to a police station because she had lost her purse and driver's license. He refused as there was a blood stain on her shirt, he said.

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2016/12/01/04/01/sara-connor-s-boyfriend-covered-in-blood

 

[PastTense]

The wife of the Bali police officer allegedly killed by Sara Connor and her British boyfriend has rejected the offer of a “donation” by the Australian, saying she won’t accept “even a cent from her”.

“I want the court to give the maximum punishment that fits what she did, based on Indonesian laws,” widow Ketut Arsini told Denpasar court on Tuesday.

The comments came after Connor read sections of a handwritten letter out to the court, in which she offers Arsini a “donation” of 25 million rupiah (about A$2,500).

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...n-rejects-compensation-offer-from-sara-connor