More jail time for Connor
The court found two aggravating factors which had not been considered by the lower court – that Connor had left the victim to die and failed to help him and the crime had damaged Bali’s tourism image.
For this reason they decided to sentence her to more time behind bars at Bali’s Kerobokan prison.
“Aggravating factors that have not been considered by the panel of judges in Denpasar District Court are one, the defendant left the victim and didn’t try to help the victim, even though she know that the victim’s body was still facedown. Two, the defendant has damaged the image of Indonesian tourism, especially tourism in Bali,” presiding Judge Sutoyo said, in reading the court’s judgment.
The original trial heard that the officer had lived for two hours after Connor and her British boyfriend David Taylor left him dying on a Kuta beach in the early hour of August 17.
Connor was not in court for yesterday’s verdict but will be devastated by the decision which will take her away from her children for another year.
The police officer’s widow, Ketut Arsini, told the Bulletin she was disappointed the sentence was not longer but left the decision to the court.
She told how her heart still aches for her husband, the father of their two children.
“If you ask whether I feel disappointed or not, of course I feel disappointed because I have lost my husband. However, if that is the decision made by the judge, we could not say anything. Maybe it is the sentence that is deserving for her,” Ms Arsini said.
The Court was handing down its decision on the prosecution’s appeal against the leniency of her four-year sentence.
The prosecution had eight years in jail. demanded