Bali police officer would have taken hours to die, Sara Connor's trial told
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Version 0 of 1. Sara Connor’s Bali trial has heard it would have taken hours for the police officer the Australian woman and her British boyfriend are alleged to have killed to die. There were 42 wounds on Wayan Sudarsa’s head, face, upper body and neck when Dr Dudut Rustyadi conducted an autopsy on 19 August last year – just two days after the officer was found covered in sand on Kuta Beach. Sudarsa’s brain showed signs of swelling while there was a blood clot in his brain stem, Rustyadi told Connor’s trial at Denpasar district court on Tuesday. He said it would have taken the police officer two to four hours to die. Rustyadi placed the time of death between 2.14am and 4.14am on 17 August. “In this case, the victim was hit several times, mainly to his right side of his head.” David Taylor has previously admitted to hitting Sudarsa with a mobile phone, binoculars and a bottle after the pair got into a fight on Kuta beach. Taylor had confronted the officer because he believed Sudarsa knew something about Connor’s purse, which went missing on the beach that night. The British man says he acted in self-defence. After the fight Taylor told Connor he had left Sudarsa “passed out” on the beach. The pair then went back to their hotel, washed their clothes and cut up Sudarsa’s cards, which Taylor had taken. A security guard, Suryana, has previously told the court he saw the trio yelling on the beach about 1am but walked away thinking they were just “joking around”. Another man, Wayan Gunawan, a community security guard, said he had received a report of a man lying on the beach. He went there about 2.30am, saw Sudarsa face up in the sand, but waited for police because he “didn’t dare” to go closer. According to the indictment, Sudarsa’s body was found by police about 3.45am. Connor and Taylor are facing separate charges of murder, fatal assault in company and assault causing death. Connor maintains she did nothing but try to separate the men. The trials continue. |