Sara Connor’s Bali jail time gets cut as Bali 9 prisoners paraded at Independence Day celebrations

Byron Bay woman Sara Connor has had months cut off her five-year prison sentence, as Bali Nine members Matthew Norman and Si Yi Chen also emerged from prison.

Byron Bay woman Sara Connor has had five months sliced off her five-year prison sentence for her part in the death of a Bali police officer.

As part of Indonesia’s Independence Day celebrations the Governor of Bali I Wayan Koster announced pardons and sentence reductions.

In May 2017, two months after Connor was sentenced to four-years’ prison over the 2016 fatal assault of the police officer, she was sentenced to an additional year in Kerobokan prison as part of her appeal.

Australian Sara Connor inside the kitchen of Denpasar Women Prison in Bali. Picture: Lukman S. Bintoro

Connor is known to keep to herself in the jail — which has a capacity to hold 3323 people but has 1695 inmates.

During the festivities, Bali Nine members Matthew Norman and Si Yi Chen greeted the Australian Consulate.

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Bali Nine member Matthew Norman inside Kerobokan jail after Indonesia's Independence Day in Bali. Picture. Lukman S. Bintoro

Norman, dressed in a black T-shirt with a large Christian cross around his neck, spent a few moments with the representatives from the Australian government before disappearing back into his cell with Chen, who was also dressed head to toe in black.

Media was allowed into the prison to watch the fun as the island celebrates the 74th anniversary of Independence Day — or Merdeka, which means freedom in Indonesian.

Bali Nine member Si Yi Chen with after Indonesia's Independence Day in Bali. Picture. Lukman S. Bintoro

Reviled convicted Australian paedophile Robert Andrew Fiddes Ellis, 73, was also named a beneficiary of the clemency with five months wiped of his 15-year term.

Ellis was found guilty of grooming and molesting 11 girls aged between seven and 17 year old before his arrest in early 2016.

Former Melbourne nightclub promoter and alleged drug crook David Van Iersel was trotted out in front of the media looking awkward while holding an Indonesian flag and plate of traditional food. Van Isersel, who was barefoot and wearing orange prison overalls, was flanked by smiling uniformed officers.

Australian David Van Iersel joins with other detainees to celebrate Indonesia’s Independence day inside the detention of Denpasar Police Station in Bali. Picture. Police Handout

Later — with his co-accused William Cabantog and dozens of other prisoners — the couple barely mumbled through a rendition of the Indonesian national anthem.

It could not be further from the glamorous life they led witha posse of Insta-famous friends, champagne-fuelled days on the ocean and dancing into the night just kilometres in away in Bali’s ultra-hip beachside area of Canggu.

Australian David Van Iersel at Denpasar Police Station in Bali. David was arrested with his friend William Cabantog at Lost City nightclub in Canggu on last July for possessing 1.12 grams of cocaine. Picture. Police Handout

The duo were arrested on July 19 at Canggu’s Lost City Nightclub and are alleged to have been carrying 1.12 grams of cocaine — which could carry a charge of 12-years in prison.