Jet-ski drug accused nabbed after going Strait
WANNABE jet-ski escapee David Jackson left a handwritten note in his Subaru Outback abandoned on the beach at the tip of Cape York.
“If I’m not back by Wednesday, I’m not dead,’’ it said. “But I’m not coming back.” The Brit fugitive, armed with a crossbow and wanted on serious drug charges in Western Australia, was nabbed in the Torres Strait on Monday trying to flee Australia on a jet-ski.
The 57-year-old is understood to have made the 150km sea journey to Papua New Guinea but had to turn back to Saibai Island, 5km off the PNG coast, to buy more fuel when he was caught by police. His escape began when he drove his car into the ocean and unloaded a Sea-Doo jet-ski – packed with fuel and supplies – at remote Punsand Bay on Monday about 7am. Jackson had been spotted in Bamaga trying to buy a compass and a map of the Torres Strait in the days before his bid for freedom.
Jackson had been on the run for a month after pleading guilty to possessing meth for sale or supply with a warrant issued in WA on February 26.