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BYRON BAY mum Sara Connor often thinks about what might have happened had she not tried to intervene in a fight between her boyfriend and a stranger on Kuta beach that fateful August night.
“I often wonder if it would have been better to just mind my business and keep on walking rather than try to help,” Sara told Fairfax Media between the bars of a holding cell outside Denpasar District Court, where she is being tried for murder.
“If I did that I wouldn’t be here.”
Sara, 46, has denied again and again any involvement in the death of Wayan Sudarsa, a Balinese police officer whose battered corpse was found with 42 wounds on August 17.
She insists she did not even see any punches being exchanged between Mr Sudarsa and her boyfriend, 34-year-old British DJ David Taylor, let alone participate in the brawl.
“I thought putting myself in between the victim was a way to stop the fight. I think I actually did [stop the fight] until the victim attacked me.”