British murder suspect David Taylor has reportedly confessed to attacking a Balinese policeman on Kuta beach while his Australian girlfriend, Sara Connor, has denied any involvement.
Mr Taylor has reportedly told police he struck the officer, Wayan Sudarsa, with his own binoculars, a beer bottle and old mobile phone during a fight on the Bali beach.
According to the ABC, after being interrogated for about 12 hours Mr Taylor’s court appointed lawyer, Haposan Sihombing, said his client told police he and Ms Connor were looking for her missing handbag on the beach when they saw a man in the area who turned out to be a police officer.
“There was a struggle between David and the victim on the beach. Also on the sand. When they were fighting David saw Sara behind the victim. Sara tried to break up the fight.”
“David saw binoculars on the victim’s neck. He then used the binoculars to hit the victim’s head twice,” Mr Sihombing said, reports Fairfax media.
The police officer suffered horrific injuries and is believed to have had 42 gashes on his body.
Sara Connor’s lawyer claims the mother-of-two played no part in the police officer’s murder.
“Our client regrets what he did on the incident of the 17th” the lawyer said.
Lawyers for Ms Connor, a 45-year-old mother of two from Byron Bay, emerged last night to address the media.
“According to the result of the investigation today, Sara said that she was not involved in this murder, she was not involved at all with this murder,” the Australian woman’s lawyer Erwin Siregar explained.
“Sara tried to separate David and the victim, but she could not do it and then because of that the victim bit the right hand of Sara and also the leg on the left side.”
Both are still being detained for allegedly murdering the local policeman.
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Both Sara, pictured, and David are still being detained for allegedly murdering the local policeman.
