Shock at Bali kill claims
THE distraught ex-husband of the missing Australian woman embroiled in a bloody Bali homicide has declared: “I can guarantee she is not a murderer.”
Sara Connor and her friend David Taylor handed themselves in at the Australian Consulate in Bali late yesterday and were then handed over to police.
The pair were taken to Denpasar police station for questioning.
It is understood Ms Connor was already inside the consul- ate in Renon when Mr Taylor arrived.
Ms Connor’s close friend from Byron Bay, Avishay Biton, was shocked last night to hear news his friends had been arrested.
“That’s a big shock to me,” he said. “They’re both so nice – it doesn’t make sense.
“It’s just a scary thought with Indonesian courts.
“It doesn’t feel like they have justice there. I’m worried for my friends.”
Byron Bay bartender Anthony Connor said the mother of his children would never harm a soul, let alone bash a police officer to death.
Witnesses reported seeing the pair covered in blood flee- ing the scene of a brutal killing at Kuta Beach on Thursday morning.
Police had wanted to question Ms Connor, whose NSW driver’s licence and a bank card were found at the murder scene.
She had been staying with Mr Taylor at the Kubu Kauh Beach Inn in Kuta.
An autopsy on the body of Bali police officer Wayan Sudarsa revealed he suffered 17 open wounds to the head and that he had been repeatedly hit in the head with a blunt object which police believe was a beer bottle.
Ms Connor’s two young boys are anxiously waiting at their Byron Bay home for their mother. Mr Connor said his former wife left for Indonesia a week ago to visit Mr Taylor, who had been denied an Australian visa.
“I can guarantee she’s not a murderer,” he said. “I haven’t heard from her but I’m really rattled, to be honest.
“I just don’t know what’s going on.”
Ms Connor’s business partner at Byron Bay Fresh Pasta, who would only be known as Michael, said she was “a normal person” who would never harm a soul.
“She went on holiday for this week. The kids are still here with their father,” he said.
“She’s just gone on holiday and gone for a week to visit (David Taylor). He was leaving here and going back to England because he didn’t get the tourist visa. “She’s a normal person.” Mr Biton described Ms Connor as “the life of the party”.
“Sara is always the one dancing at our parties,” he said
“Sara and (her friend) are such beautiful people – there’s just no way they had anything to do with this.
“Sara is a mother first and foremost. She loves her kids.
“I just want to make that really clear.
“They’re both beautiful people and I would to my core be shocked if they were involved.”