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BYRON BAY murder suspect Sara Connor has claimed she didn’t report a vicious fight on Kuta beach to police because she didn’t want the officer involved to get into trouble.
Sara and her British DJ boyfriend David Taylor are both facing charges of murder, fatal group assault or assault leading to death after Balinese police officer Wayan Sudarsa’s battered corpse was found on Kuta beach on August 17 last year.
Speaking outside her murder trial in the Denpasar District Court on Tuesday, Ms Connor insisted she never knew the police officer was seriously hurt after a fight with her boyfriend.
Ms Connor claims Mr Sudarsa, a police officer of 35 years, bit her on the arm and upper thigh when she tried to separate the two men, who were brawling in the sand.
“I never knew the policeman was seriously hurt. I left … I never went back to the scene,” she said. “I tried to go to the police to report it because I was upset somebody attacked me while I was trying to help.”
However Ms Connor said that after having a shower at her Kuta homestay, Kubu Kauh Inn, she calmed down.
“After I had a shower, I was calmer. I thought: ‘It’s ok, I don’t have to report him, I don’t want to get him in any trouble,” she said.
Earlier in court, Mr Taylor claimed he couldn’t breathe and was afraid he was going to die during the nasty fight with Mr Sudarsa, whom he had believed at the time was a bogus cop.