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Aussie fugitive Shaun Davidson taunts police with new jaunt to Thailand as he remains on the run

Australian fugitive Shaun Davidson has again taunted police on social media by reportedly posting his latest location as he remains on the run.

Shaun Davidson, Australia's globe-trotting prison escapee

Australian fugitive Shaun Davidson has again taunted police on social media by reportedly posting his location as he remains on the run.

Davidson, 34, is one of four foreign prisoners who made a risky dash for freedom by burrowing a tunnel 15m under the walls of the jail on June 19, 2017.

According to his most recent posts on his Facebook page, he is in Phuket Thailand.

He posted on November 15 with a bunch of smiley, laughing and angelic emojis as he checked into the popular tourist island spot.

Hi followers responded, saying: “You sure get around lol”.

Another wrote: “Like Spencer Davis said, keep on running.”

Another fan called on him to post a photo to prove he was there and still alive.

She wrote: “Post a photo of a fork on your head to prove your alive.”

It has been more than a year after since he broke out of Bali’s infamous Kerobokan prison.

In a Facebook post earlier this year, Davidson checked in to the Gold Coast adding the caption “Hello gold coast”.

Two of the men who broke out of jail with Davidson, Bulgarian money launderer Dimitar Nikolov Iliev and Indian drug smuggler Sayed Mohammed Said, were caught at luxury resort Novo Turismo in Dili East Timor.

Australian Shaun Edward Davidson inside a Denpasar District Court cell waiting his first trial of using fake identification and over staying in Bali in 2016. Picture: Lukman S. Bintoro
Australian Shaun Edward Davidson inside a Denpasar District Court cell waiting his first trial of using fake identification and over staying in Bali in 2016. Picture: Lukman S. Bintoro

Davidson and a fourth man, 50-year-old Malaysian national and fellow drug offender Tee Kok King, remain at large.

Tee has apparently kept a low profile while on the run while Davidson, from Perth, has used at least one of his Facebook accounts (he reportedly has multiple) to throw the authorities and the media off course.

He has previously reported to have “checked in” to four different countries, The Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and the UAE using the Facebook alter ego Matthew Rageone Ridler.

He is a boxing instructor who taught classes at Kerobokan prison, where his students included Bali Nine member Matthew Norman.

He has friends and contacts in Mixed Martial Arts and Muay Thai communities in several south east Asian countries and links to at least one outlaw motorcycle gang — the Mongols in Perth.

Originally published as Aussie fugitive Shaun Davidson taunts police with new jaunt to Thailand as he remains on the run

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