Fugitive revels in a year on the lam

BALI prison escapee Shaun Edward Davidson has gloated his first year on the run as a self-dubbed “gingerbread man” is the first of many more to come.

Next week marks one year since Davidson and three other prisoners brazenly tunnelled out of Bali’s Kerobokan jail and he now claims to be living happily and “kicking back in Tasmania”.

Two of the four were nabbed within days in East Timor but Davidson, formerly from Perth, and Malaysian prisoner Tee Kok King are still on the run.

King is believed to be back in his native Malaysia now.

For the first few months of his new-found freedom, Davidson regularly taunted authorities from the same Facebook page he had used while in jail, checking in at exotic locations around the world and playing a “catch me if you can” game with police, dubbing himself the gingerbread man.

He even took to dishing out stockmarket advice for his 2200 followers, telling them which stocks to buy and sell and when and mocked up his own wanted posters.

But for the past few months Davidson has been uncharacteristically quiet online.

Back in April he posted “1 year coming up pretty quick” and recently told a follower that he was in Tasmania but he has said little else.

When contacted online by the Sunday Territorian this week, asking about his year on the run, Davidson, or someone purporting to be him, told us it was the “first (year) with many more to come”.

And in November, Davidson said he was “just taking it easy, enjoying life. Still kicking back in Tasmania”.

But despite checking in on Facebook, which anyone can do without being there, at places like Barbados, Amsterdam, Dubai, Germany and Copenhagen, he has never once posted a photograph of himself in any of the exotic locations he claims to have been.

Last year he publicly offered his story to the media for money. Unsurprisingly, no one paid him.

Authorities in Indonesia say they have now handed the runaway Australian’s case to Interpol because they are confident he has left their shores.

“Related with the two foreign inmates who escaped from Kerobokan, we have handed it over to Interpol because they have already left Indonesian territory. However we are continuing to co-ordinate with Interpol. We are in contact with them,” Badung police chief, Yudith Satriya Hananta, said.

He revealed that after escaping Kerobokan prison on June 19 last year, Davidson had fled to Medan, in Sumatra.