Schapelle’s bodyguard on another Bali mission
SCHAPELLE Corby’s bodyguard is in a race against time to travel to Bali to help escort fellow Australian prisoner Sara Connor to freedom.
Three years after assisting drug runner Corby out of the island’s infamous Kerobokan jail, Australian security consultant John McLeod has been approached to protect the Byron Bay mother upon her release.
Prison authorities hold grave fears for the 49-yearold’s safety following the murder of a separate cop killer upon their release from prison in Sulawesi – an Indonesian island in the Makassar sea.
Connor will be released on Thursday having served four years of her five-year sentence for her part in the fatal bashing of a policeman on Kuta beach in 2016 with her former DJ boyfriend David Taylor, a Brit who remains in jail.
“I will have more to tell you tomorrow because there are several issues with getting to Bali at the moment,” Mr McLeod said.
Indonesia is not accepting foreigners unless they already hold a work visa, and immigration is not issuing visas since the island is closed to international visitors.
The corrections division head of the Law and Human Rights Ministry’s Bali office, Mr Suprapto, said Connor’s safety when she leaves prison was his top priority.
Mr McLeod is the famous hired gun who shepherded Schapelle Corby during the major media circus of her release in 2017 from the same prison where she served nine years for bringing a boogie board bag stuffed with 4.2kg of cannabis to the holiday island.
He has also extracted Queensland schoolie-gonebad Zac Whiting who was thrown into the Kuta cells last year for punching a security guard in the car park of Burger King.