Bali murder: Police say Sara Connor, David Taylor have changed their version of events

AUSSIE woman Sara Connor and her British boyfriend, who are being quizzed over the killing of a Bali cop, have allegedly changed their version of events.

AUSTRALIAN woman Sara Connor and Brit David Taylor have allegedly told police that their version so far of what happened on the night a Bali policeman was killed is not true and that today they will tell the truth.

The revelation comes after Byron Bay woman Sara Connor was taken back to the beach scene by police in the early hours of this morning.

Denpasar Police Chief, Hadi Purnomo, said that Connor had given police a new version of events and that today it will all be made clear.

Sara Connor is being questioned by Balinese police regarding the murder of a Balinese police officer on Kuta Beach. Picture: Facebook

And Mr Purnomo denied that the dead officer, Wayan Sudarsa, had been peeping on the couple as they were intimate on the beach.

He also told his officers, in a morning meeting, that David Taylor had, at some point, believed that Sudarsa was a fake or bogus policeman.

“There was a statement from Sara last night. We have also conducted a pre-reconstruction with Sara last night (at the beach). We found how Sara was at the scene. She was with David, bought beverages in one of the shops near the scene. And Sara also said that she was playing in the water at the beach, dating there, drinking Bintang beer. She finished three bottles,” Mr Purnomo said.

British man David Taylor escorted from a cell for interrogation. Picture: Lukman S. Bintoro

“At that time she lost her wallet and also lost beverages, two bottles have gone. Because she was drunk, according to Sara’s statement. At the scene it was made clear,” he said.

“Today she will be open. What she conveyed yesterday is a fake statement. Today she promised she will truly (discuss) what she saw.”

Taylor’s lawyer Yan Erick Sihombing said that today his client will tell police “all the truth, the honest story”.

Taylor has just been brought from the police jail cells to the interrogation room to face further questioning.

As his lawyers went in to accompany him, Mr Sihombing said the situation was that he he has not yet told them everything.

“All the truth, the honest story, everything that he didn’t tell the police, that’s what we expect today,” Mr Sihombing said.

“He told us that he has not told us everything. So today we will see about that,” he said.

“He is pretty calm, he is pretty co-operative with the police so we will see about that later.”

Mr Sihombing said that so far Taylor had not had contact with his UK family.

And Robert Khuana, one of the lawyers representing Connor said the lawyers had advised her to be open and tell the truth.

British man David Taylor inside a police office this morning in Bali with his lawyers. Picture: Supplied

“We advised to her to be open and tell the truth,” Mr Khuana said on the way into the police station to see his client.

He said that so far police had not interrogated Connor about the material of what happened that night.

“It is still formal questions about identity, something like that. Sara is tired and then we agree with the police today will be continued,” Mr Khuana said.

Asked if Connor had told the police about the slain officer assaulting her, Mr Khuana said: “She didn’t tell us yet so we hope that before the investigation we would like to ask her about what is the real story … to be honest.”

Connor’s other lawyer, Erwin Siregar, says that on Saturday when he visited her she told him she was innocent.

Australian Sara Connor escorted from a cell for interrogation. Picture: Lukman S. Bintoro

“The first time when I met her she is easy going and nice woman and she said to me she is not involved in this case, not at all,” Mr Siregar said at Denpasar Police station this morning.

“I am not guilty Pak (Mr) Erwin. I did not involve in this case. Really, I did not kill him,” Mr Siregar said that Connor had told him on the weekend.

He said that Connor had not told him anything about being assaulted by the police officer.

“Not yet, only one thing she said to me that she (is) not involved with this case.”

But Mr Purnomo said reports that the dead officer had attempted to sexually assault Connor were not true. It was suggested yesterday that Taylor had said Connor told him the police officer was a bad man who had tried to sexually assault her.

“This is only his reason, so that it is seen that he was not guilty. Today he will be interrogated again. He will be honest today,” Mr Purnomo said, referring to Taylor.

British man David Taylor with police in Bali. Picture: Lukman S. Bintoro

Asked if it was true that the police officer was “peeping” on the couple on the beach, Mr Purnomo said: “Not peeping. Only monitoring there, they were monitored because he is doing his task. If he is peeping why would he use his uniform? He could use his (own) clothes. He is doing his task from 8pm until 8am in front of the Pullman hotel. At the same time, incidentally there was two people dating. He monitored them. So he was not peeping but supervising.”

Mr Purnomo, in a morning meeting with his officers today, warned them against peeping on couples on the beach.

“Don’t have the disease of peeping. Better if you buy a blue (movie) and watch it yourself … there was a personnel that was keeping an eye on people dating, clashed and a fight happened. He said it was a bogus police and a fight happened,” Mr Purnomo told his officers.

Connor, 45 and a mother of two boys and Taylor, a British DJ who had lived in New Zealand and Byron Bay, who was her boyfriend, have been under arrest in Bali since late Friday, facing charges of murder, battery and assault of the police officer.

Sara Connor has been under arrest in Bali since last week. Picture: Supplied

His bloody body, suffering 17 wounds to the head and 42 wounds altogether to his body, was found on Kuta Beach in the early hours of last Wednesday morning.

Police say that blood from Connor and Taylor has been found at the scene of the killing and blood was also found in their nearby hotel room. Connor’s NSW driver’s licence and an ATM card was found at the scene.

The officer was cremated yesterday in a traditional Hindu ceremony, with full police honours.

Last night Taylor’s lawyer Yak Erick Sihombing said the couple was on Kuta Beach cuddling when Connor’ s handbag went missing and the couple separated to search for the bag and that she was attacked by a police officer who was “not good”.

The body of Wayan Sudarsa is taken to the cemetery to be cremated in Jimbaran, Bali. Picture: Komang Erviani

Mr Sihombing said that three or four men then came to her aid and she slipped away from the scene.

He said that Taylor had told police that meanwhile, separately, while also searching for the handbag, had come across the police officer lying on the sand and had tried to check inside his mouth to see if he was alive when the officer bit his finger so he left the scene as well.

The couple will be interrogated today by police where Mr Purnomo said they will now give a true version of the events of that night.