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TWO SYDNEY sisters who were in a Bali hotel across the road from the beach where a police officer was murdered have revealed how they were woken by a fight and loud screams of desperation on the night.
Coleen Bowen and Kim Watson now believe that what they heard was the fight leading up to the death of police officer Wayan Sudarsa.
The pair was horrified to wake up and find the beach in front of their hotel roped off with police tape. They subsequently learned that Australian woman Sara Connor and her British boyfriend had been detained as suspects in the murder.
Fearing involvement and scared they waited until they returned home to contact Australian Federal Police here.
The sisters arrived in Bali on August 16 and after dinner had gone to bed in separate beachfront rooms of the Pullman Hotel.
“I heard this screaming that woke me up,” Ms Bowen recalls.
She said the voices sounded Australian.
“It sounded like they were screaming for their life.”
Peter Strain, the Australian lawyer for Sara Connor, a mum of two from Byron Bay, said the women’s evidence was consistent with what Connor has said to police in Bali during repeated police interrogations.
Sara and her British boyfriend David Taylor have been in custody since August 19, detained as suspects in the August 17 murder of the police officer.
“Sara has said all along in each of her statements to the police that her only involvement in the fight was to try and break it up. Evidence of her screaming “No, no let him go” would seem to me to be consistent with her claim”, Mr Strain told News Corporation.