David Taylor shares affectionate kiss with Sara Connor inside Bali jail
BYRON Bay woman Sara Connor shared a passionate kiss with boyfriend David Taylor inside jail before slamming the murder case against her as ‘fabricated’.
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BYRON Bay woman Sara Connor and her British boyfriend David Taylor remain as affectionate as ever as their murder trials proceed and they face Christmas together behind bars.
On Thursday, as Connor waited with other prisoners for the bus to take them from Kerobokan Jail to court, she and Taylor shared an intimate embrace, kissing and cuddling.
Connor, 46, was appearing n in Denpasar District Court on Thursday for another day of her trial on charges of murdering Bali police officer Wayan Sudarsa.
She hit out at the Bali murder case against her, describing it as fabricated and lies to make her look guilty.
And in court she clashed with the chief police officer in charge of the case and asked another officer if the dead policeman had been drinking alcohol on shift on the night he died because his blood alcohol level was high.
After her trial in Denpasar District Court was finished yesterday Connor said she wanted to talk to the media.
“This witness was the main investigator and he couldn’t remember things and also made a mistake on things that are not in my statement,” Connor said.
“I think that this is all made to make me look guilty while I am not guilty. This all seems to be fabricated and just created to make me look guilty when I am not. So many lies and inaccurate things. This is not fair, they are playing with my life,” she said, prompted by her legal team.
She misses her children and said she is having a terrible time in jail.
In court she raised the prospect of the murdered police officer, Wayan Sudarsa, being drunk on shift.
“I read that the victim’s alcohol level in the blood was high. Did he used to drink on his shift?” she asked one of his fellow officers who was testifying.
He said he didn’t know.
And in court Connor refuted the evidence of Sulhadi, the chief investigator, suggesting to the officer that if he had a video of her re-enacting what happened on the night of the murder, he should watch it again.
“If you have video you should look at it again because I have never said anything that you said happened,” Connor told the officer during her murder trial yesterday.
Taylor said earlier this week that he and Connor would stand by each other. Taylor says his girlfriend was not involved in the fight which left the police officer dead.
In court Connor yesterday replied forcefully and adamantly when asked to respond to the evidence of Sulhadi, the chief police investigator.
She was asked to respond to his evidence about what she told him during police interrogations after initially denying any involvement in the murder.
He said Connor had re-enacted for him her hand on the victim’s neck. Sulhadi then played out the scene to the court, adding that he had recorded it on his mobile phone but the video was not part of the court evidence. The defence requested that he find it.
Connor said his evidence was wrong and he should view the video.
“Never. I never pulled David from behind. I separated them, I fall on his body and I pushed David away.
“I have never seen David hitting the guy and I have never hit the guy. I fell and I sit up to stand up and that’s when he was moving his body and I fell forward. That’s when he bit my arm. He bit my arm and then he turns around and bit my legs,” Connor said.
“I have never told David that I hit him because I never hit him and it’s not in any of my statements.”
Connor said he had always told the truth in her interrogations with police.
“I have always said the truth and I have always been constant in all of my statements … I never said to David that the victim hit me, I said that the victim bit me. I never said that I pulled David, it is not in my statement and I haven’t done it,” she said.
“I have never had my arm around his(the victim’s) neck … I never said I sat on him … I never said that we left Kubu Kauh (their hotel) because we were scared, we didn’t know that a person had died.”
Connor said photographs taken at the beach re-enactment were not accurate because they depicted a motion not a still event.
Sulhadi told the court that he first heard about the body on the beach at 3.30am on August 17. He detailed the scene when he arrived at the beach – blood on the sand, the victim lying face up, his face full of sand and his belongings scattered around nearby, like a mobile phone, police pouch and belt, walkie talkie, broken binoculars and a broken beer bottle.
Originally published as David Taylor shares affectionate kiss with Sara Connor inside Bali jail
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