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CRUCIAL PROSECUTION witness, Pullman Hotel security guard Suryana, has failed to show up for the third time to Byron Bay DJ David Taylor’s murder trial in Bali on Wednesday Nov 30.
Of the eight prosecution witnesses, only five have turned up to appear in court.
Byron mum Sara Connor says she is in a “nightmare” and her British boyfriend, with whom she is co-accused of killing a Bali police officer, is “not an aggressive person”.
“I would love to go back to my kids and to Australia … I’m sure they need their mother.”
“It’s a nightmare.”
A Bali motorbike taxi driver has also told of refusing to take Byron Bay mum Sara Connor on his bike on the night a police officer was murdered because she had blood on her and he was afraid of blood.
His fear stemmed from a near escape in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings.
Gede Suartama was one of five witnesses who on Wed 30 testified at the trial of British man David Taylor in the Denpasar District Court.
Taylor, 34, and his 46-year-old girlfriend Sara Connor are accused of together murdering Bali police officer Wayan Sudarsa, whose battered body, with more than 40 wounds, was found on a Kuta beach in the early hours of August 17.
Taylor’s trial resumed on Wednesday and of the eight witnesses called by the prosecution to testify, five turned up to court.
Sara, a Byron Bay businesswoman and mum of two boys, maintains that she played no role in the bashing and that she had tried to separate her boyfriend and the officer as they fought that night on the beach.