Australian teen Jamie Murphy flies home from Bali after receiving apology from Sky Garden nightclub

AUSTRALIAN teenager Jamie Murphy is back home in Perth after being whisked through a private exit at the airport last night.

Australian teenager Jamie Murphy walks with his mother to depart to Perth at Bali International Airport, Bali, Indonesia. Picture: AAP Image/Johannes Christo.

AUSTRALIAN teenager Jamie Murphy is back home in Perth.

Airport staff whisked the 18-year-old and his parents, Brendan and Anna Murphy, through a private exit at Perth airport and into a waiting van to avoid the media after their flight landed in the early hours of this morning.

Mr Murphy spent two nights locked up in Bali this week as police accused him of possessing drugs. He was released without charge after lab tests found the white powder in his possession was in fact legal.

Kuta police chief Wayan Sumara said Mr Murphy was “very lucky” to be walking free.

Jamie Murphy at Bali International airport about to leave for Perth. Picture: AAP Image/Johannes Christo.

Police said he was “very lucky” Picture: AAP Image/Johannes Christo

Perth teenager Jamie Murphy with his parents at Bali airport getting ready to fly home tonight #Bali pic.twitter.com/E2xEhTwExE

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The teen had earlier received an apology from the nightclub where he was grabbed by security. Picture: AAP Image/Johannes Christo

Earlier Mr Sumara said the white powder Mr Murphy “got in the street” was “medicine ... not drugs”.

“They tell him ‘just try this one you will feel better than now’. That is fine,” Mr Sumara said.

“But after taking and he drink in room hotel he gets problem (at the club).

“(But) it is not drugs it is medicine.”

Mr Sumara was asked by a reporter if Mr Murphy thought “it was drugs when he bought it”.

“He doesn't know is this drug or not but according to the man who give in the street ‘you can try this medicine, is better for your life,’” Mr Sumara said.

Mr Murphy walked free from a Bali police station after it was confirmed that white powder found on him at the Sky Garden Bar in Kuta on Monday night was not illicit drugs but painkillers.

The 18-year-old from Perth escaped charges after authorities confirmed the white powder he was found with was most likely crushed up paracetamol.

Blood and urine tests on Mr Murphy, to test for the presence of drugs, also came back negative.

The Bali nightclub where the teenager was grabbed by police has now apologised for using “excessive force” and ordered the guard to undergo security training.

Sky Garden Management released a statement to “extend a sincere apology to Jamie, his family and friends. Our company procedure is to hand over suspects peacefully to police if we feel they’ve committed a crime at Sky Garden,” it read.

“We have reprimanded the security in question and he will not be permitted to come back to work until he has completed and passed another round of police security training.”

Murphy was celebrating with fellow graduates from their Perth high school in the entertainment precinct of Kuta at the time.

Australian teenager Jamie Murphy is released at a police station in Kuta, Bali. Picture: AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA

The club said the guard was “ordered” to hold up the teenager’s face so police could take his photo but said “we feel he used too much ‘excessive force’ which is clearly unacceptable under the circumstances.”

The dramatic picture showed Murphy with his eyes closed and a guard’s hands around his neck, prompting a major national news story when Murphy was arrested and handed over to police by security forces for allegedly carrying a small plastic bag containing white powder.

The club said a guard had been ordered to hold his head by police for a picture. Picture: Supplied

“It’s not mine, I haven’t taken it, what are you doing, it’s not mine. It’s not mine,” he shouted during his arrest, which was captured by Channel Nine cameras.

Following his arrest just after midnight on Tuesday, the teen spent two nights in police custody with the terrifying threat of a maximum 12 years in an Indonesia jail hanging over his head.

He was released by Bali police overnight and into the care of his distraught parents Brendan and Anna Murphy, who flew to Bali early yesterday from their Perth home to be with their son.

The teenager said nothing as he was led past the waiting press on Wednesday night and towards a waiting vehicle parked outside the police station.

Authorities earlier said Mr Murphy didn’t know what he was purchasing when he bought the white powder off the street.

Australian Jamie Murphy is escorted by police during his release at a police station in Kuta on Indonesia's resort island of Bali on November 23, 2016. Picture: AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA

The head of the police forensics laboratory in Denpasar, Koesnadi, confirmed to News Corporation that the 1.46 grams of white powder inside a small ziplock plastic bag did not contain any illegal drugs.

Koesnadi said the powder contained at least four materials, including caffeine and painkillers.

“We have tested the white powder and it’s not drugs,” Koesnadi said. “It’s a mix of at least four materials, including caffeine and analgesics.”

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop issued a warning to the thousands of Australian students and graduates who travel overseas to celebrate their graduations that they must abide by local laws at all times.

“I do urge young people and their families to remember that once you leave Australia, you’re no longer subject to Australian laws, you’re subject to the laws of that country,” Ms Bishop said on Sunrise.

Jamie Murphy is freed from a Bali police station. Picture: Lukman S. Bintoro