The scene of the crime, the Ellis family villa in Sanur, Bali
Indonesian police have at last managed to arrest the eighth and final person suspected of involvement in the grisly murder of Australian businessman Robert Ellis.
While police were just able to secure the seventh suspect on Saturday in Sumba, just yesterday, police brought in for a dramatic arrest also in Sumba, Marthen Kada, reports new.com.AU.
“When arrested, Marthen was hiding in a wardrobe. When police saw his foot, police shot his foot,” said Loura police chief Sipri Abatan. Plain and simple. Almost as dramatic as when two of the other suspects tried to use machetes and poison arrows to evade their arrest.
Kada had been on the run with suspect #7, Adolf Malo Rangga, in Sumba, who was caught on Saturday. Rangga reportedly gave police “vital clues” about Kada’s whereabouts that lead to his arrest.
After his arrest, Kada was sent to the hospital for medical treatment of his shot foot. The suspect is now in the West Sumba police station and is supposed to be sent to Bali on Thursday.
According to reports, Kada is suspected to be the chief ringleader in carrying out the hit that Ellis’ wife allegedly ordered on her husband, for IDR150 million in October 2014.
The 60-year-old man’s body was found in a rice field ditch, wrapped in plastic with the throat slashed.
