A court on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali jailed a British man for six years on Monday (March 13) for his role in the death of a traffic policeman.
David Taylor, 33, and his Australian girlfriend Sara Connor, 45, were arrested in August last year after the body of police official Wayan Sudarsa was found on the popular Kuta beach, with wounds to his head and neck.
Taylor and Connor were involved in an altercation with Sudarsa, whom they suspected of stealing Connor’s purse.
“He is being given a sentence of six years in prison. The period he has been in custody will be deducted from the sentence which is imposed,” presiding judge Yanto, who like many Indonesians go by one name, told the courtroom.
Taylor, dressed in a white shirt and black pants, nodded as a legal aid translated the verdict.
Prosecutors had called for an eight-year sentence.
Connor is expected to be sentenced later in the day.
(Reuters)
