Over a month since four prisoners made their great escape from Bali’s Kerobokan, tunneling under the jail’s walls, police say they “suspect” the two remaining at-large escapees are still in Indonesia.
Australian Shaun Davidson and Malaysian drug smuggler Tee Kok King remain free after fleeing Kerobokan on June 19. The two other prisoners they escaped with, Bulgarian Dimitar Nikolov Iliev and Indian Sayed Mohammed Said, were shortly recaptured in East Timor on June 21, then sent back to the jail.
Badung District Police Chief Yudith Satriya Hananta is now saying that police suspect the two remaining fugitives may still be in Indonesia.
“We’re still chasing, coordinating with district police from all over Indonesia and Interpol,” Hananta told AAP.
“Our suspicion is that the Australian and Malaysian are still in Indonesia.”
Based on interviews with witnesses, police believe that the two split up after their escape.
But this isn’t the first time police have purported to know something about Davidson’s whereabouts, so let’s not get too excited.
Two weeks ago, Bali’s police chief said they were “close” to catching the Australian and even knew his location, but here we are now, still no Davidson.
The Aussie has made a name for himself on social media following his prison break, with his purported Facebook profile, Matthew Rageone Ridler, checking into Amsterdam, Dubai, and Germany, and mocking police, asking him just how close they are to catching him. Police say they believe Davidson is just using proxies for the check-ins and there were no actual photos of Davidson posted to the profile, in any of the locations he checked in at. From Davidson’s end, the Aussie has claimed that he was “not taunting” police and was “just having fun.”
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Just this week, ‘Ridler’ posted two mock wanted posters to his profile, along with an apparent screenshot of a brazen message to the Manila Interpol Secretariat, casually saying: “hey, how’s it going just wondering how close are you really”.
Bali Police previously said an orange alert had been issued from Interpol for Davidson.
The Australian, who was serving a year-long sentence for using a stolen passport, was apparently motivated to flee prison just 10 weeks before his release date because he would have been deported and faces drug charges back home in Australia.
