Sara Connor, an Australian woman who was sentenced to four-years’ imprisonment in 2017 over the brutal death of a local policeman, has been released from Kerobokan prison this morning and is due for deportation with the next available flight to her home country.
A spokesman from the regional office for the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, I Putu Surya Dharma, said yesterday that Connor would be taken to the immigration office at Ngurah Rai International Airport after her release.
“Since there are no flights so she’ll be detained with immigration for the time being,” Surya said.
Connor was initially due for a release in August next year, but received a sentence remission that allowed for her early release. Officials did not immediately say why she was eligible for her remission.
The 49-year-old woman and her British boyfriend David Taylor were convicted of fatal group assault back in March 2017. Taylor was sentenced to six years in prison after he confessed to having fatally assaulted Balinese police officer Wayan Sudarsa, though he insisted he was acting in self-defense, alleging that Wayan had tried to choke him.
Throughout the trial, Connor had insisted that she’s innocent and said she tried to break up the fight between the two men. She admitted that she was guilty of destroying evidence, including Wayan’s police ID card and bloodied clothes belonging to herself and Taylor.
Wayan’s battered body was found on Kuta Beach in August 2016 after a late-night fight broke out when Taylor accused Wayan of stealing Connor’s handbag. Wayan, who had 42 wounds to his body, had been a member of Bali’s police officer for 35 years and left behind his wife and two children.
