Pria Inggris Akui Pukul Polisi Bali Gunakan Teropong, kata Pengacaranya
Briton Hit Murdered Bali Policeman During Fight: Lawyer
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
PRIA Inggris yang dituduh membunuh seorang polisi di Pulau Bali mengakui memukul korban di kepala dengan teropong saat keduanya berkelahi di pantai, kata pengacaranya Senin.
David Taylor mengklaim bahwa ia didorong oleh polisi lalu lintas Bali, Aipda Wayan Sudarsa, yang menjadi pemicu pertengkaran, dan ia memukulnya setelah pacarnya asal Australia ditarik si polisi yang berupaya melerai pertengkaran antara keduanya, kata pengacara.
Tubuh babak belur dan penuh luka Wayan Sudarsa ditemukan pada Rabu dini hari pekan lalu lalu di Pantai Kuta, tempat wisata yang populer di Bali selatan. David Taylor dan kekasihnya Sara Connor ditangkap dua hari kemudian.
Mereka dijadikan tersangka akhir pekan lalu, sebuah langkah dalam sistem hukum Indonesia yang berarti penegak hukum meyakini bahwa mereka memiliki bukti yang cukup untuk mempertimbangkan pengajuan tersangka, dan diancam hukuman penjara hingga 15 tahun penjara jika terbukti bersalah melakukan pembunuhan.
Keduanya sejauh ini kerap memberikan keterangan yang saling bertentangan dan membingungkan tentang kejadian pekan lalu, tapi sebelum polisi melakukan penyelidikan mendalam, pengacara David Taylor pada Senin berjanji akan mengungkapkan "fakta".
Setelah menjalani interogasi di Denpasar, ibukota Bali, pengacara David Taylor, Haposan Sihombing mengatakan kliennya telah terlibat dalam perselisihan pada tengah malam dengan Wayan Sudarsa.
Dia dan Sarah menuju ke pantai Selasa malam. Namun Haposan mengatakan Sarah Connor kehilangan tasnya, dan Taylor mendekati Sudarsa di pantai untuk menanyakan apakah ia melihatnya.
"Setelah itu, polisi mendorongnya, terus mendorong dia," kata pengacara itu, seraya menambahkan bahwa mereka kemudian terlibat perkelahian di pantai.
Ketika perkelahian berlangsung, Sarah Connor menarik si polisi dari belakang setelah dia berupaya untuk melerai mereka dan David Taylor melihat teropong di leher Sudarsa, kata Haposan Sihombing.
"Dia melihat sepasang teropong pada leher korban - dan teropong tersebut digunakan David untuk memukul kepala korban dua kali," kata pengacara.
Selama interogasi terpisah sebelumnya pada Senin, Sarah Connor mengaku ia melihat Sudarsa berbaring tertelungkup di pantai dan ketika dia mendekati bertanya apakah ia telah melihat tasnya, korban menggigit pada kaki, menurut pengacara Erwin Siregar.
Dia mengatakan bahwa dia bersikukuh mengaku tidak bersalah seperti dikutip AFP yang dilansir MailOnline.
A BRITISH man accused of murdering a policeman on Indonesia's Bali island hit the victim in the head with binoculars during a struggle on a beach, his lawyer said Monday.
David Taylor claims he was pushed by the Balinese traffic policeman, Wayan Sudarsa, which led to the struggle, and he hit him after his Australian girlfriend pulled at the officer in a bid to break up the fight, the lawyer said.
Sudarsa's battered body was found in the early hours last Wednesday on Kuta beach, a popular tourist spot in southern Bali. Taylor and the Australian woman Sara Connor were arrested two days later.
They were named suspects over the weekend, a step in the Indonesian legal system that means authorities believe they have enough evidence to consider filing charges, and could face up to 15 years in jail if found guilty of murder.
The couple have so far given often contradictory and confusing accounts about last week's events, but before police questioning Monday Taylor's legal team promised he would tell "the honest story".
After the interrogation in the Balinese capital Denpasar, Taylor's lawyer Haposan Sihombing said his client had become involved in a late-night confrontation with Sudarsa.
He and Connor had headed to the beach late Tuesday. But Sihombing said Connor lost her bag, and Taylor approached Sudarsa on the beach to ask if he had seen it.
"After that, the police officer pushed him, kept pushing him," the lawyer said, adding that they then began wrestling on the beach.
As the fight played out, Connor pulled at the policeman from behind in an attempt to separate them and Taylor spotted binoculars around Sudarsa's neck, said Sihombing.
"He saw a pair of binoculars on the victim's neck -- those were the binoculars that David used to hit the head of the victim twice," the lawyer said.
During separate questioning earlier Monday, Connor claimed she saw Sudarsa lying face-down on the beach and when she approached to ask whether he had seen her bag, the victim bit her on the leg, according to lawyer Erwin Siregar.
He said that she maintained her innocence.
Bali, a pocket of Hinduism in Muslim-majority Indonesia, is a popular tourist destination known for its tropical climate and palm-fringed beaches.
Petty crime is common but murders are rare.