FUN ON THE RUN
CHEEKY ESCAPEE TAUNTS POLICE
BALI jail escapee Shaun Edward Davidson has made up his own wanted posters as he continues to taunt police more than a month after he and three others tunnelled out of Kerobokan prison.
The mock-up missing person and wanted posters are the latest addition to a Facebook page Davidson is believed to have been using since he went on the run.
The Perth man has also messaged Interpol, who have been called in to help track him down, asking how close they really are to finding him.
The cheeky posts are on the Facebook page of Matthew Rageone Ridler, which carries Da- vidson’s photos and on which he regularly makes comments about his life on the run and where friends contact him, congratulating him on evading authorities for so long.
The latest post is a mock-up of a missing person poster, containing Davidson’s photograph and a fingerprint and magnifying glass.
“Last known whereabouts, Kerobokan Prison, Bali, Indonesia. Last seen 18/07/2017. Possible whereabouts: Not sure but we’re close,” the poster says.
He also brazenly messaged Interpol’s Manila secretariat: “hey hows it going just wondering when you say close how close are you really?”
Davidson has also offered his followers some stock mar- ket advice as well as applauding himself for his criminal antics.
“I’ve been a free man now for 30 full days I’ve left fans amazed police and governments dazed who wouldv thought id be ontop with my cheeky smartass ways,” he wrote recently.
Davidson and three other foreign prisoners escaped from Kerobokan prison in the early hours of June 19, fleeing via an old 15-metre sewage tunnel. Two of the four — Bulgarian Dimitar Nikolov Iliev and Indian Sayed Mohammed Said — were captured several days later in Dili, the capital of East Timor, as they attempted to get a charter boat.
A recent re-enactment of the brazen escape, in which the duo played themselves and the roles of Davidson and another man were played by police, showed how the four escaped by knocking a hole in their cell wall and climbing out.
They then spent four hours, in heavy rain, bailing water out of the escape tunnel before going down and crawling out.
Iliev and Said then changed clothes and took a taxi to Bali airport, where they met an associate and collected cash and a suitcase before heading to the airport where they met another man who gave them flight tickets to Kupang in West Timor in exchange for $1000.
Davidson, who was first out of the tunnel, has not been seen since. Nor has Malaysian drug smuggler, Tee Kok King, who was the second to escape.
A GoFundMe page for Da- vidson, believed to have been set up by Davidson’s friends, raised just $65 before it was shut down by the administrators for violating the terms of service of GoFundMe.
The site, Fund a Fugitive, was supposedly set up to keep the “hilarious saga” of Davidson’s life on the run going.
At the time of his escape Davidson had just 10 weeks left to serve of his one year jail term on Immigration offences, including using the passport of another Australian man who had reported it lost.
He is however wanted on drugs charges in Perth and at the end of his Bali sentence would have been immediately deported to Australia to face court in his hometown and a likely jail term.