Sara Conner from Byron Bay locked up in Bali prison gets unlikely reprieve on Christmas Day

A Byron Bay mother locked up in Bali’s notorious Kerobokan prison for her role in the killing of a local police officer could be released by June 2020.

Sara Connor, 48, is serving a five-year sentence over the beating death of Wayan Sudarsa on Kuta Beach in August 2016. 

The mother-of-two, who had one month sliced off her sentence on Christmas Day, has received a number of remissions during her time behind bars.

Remissions are given on December 25 and on Indonesia’s Independence Day in August, and if she receives another one she could walk free mid next year after serving four years.

Connor is serving a five year sentence for beating Wayan Sudarsa to death on Kuta Beach in August 2016

The mother-of-two, who had one month sliced off her sentence on Christmas Day, has received a number of remissions during her time behind bars

The mother-of-two, who had one month sliced off her sentence on Christmas Day, has received a number of remissions during her time behind bars

‘Sara Connor got a one-month remission. She is eligible because she has a good attitude during her punishment and follows the rules here,’ Lili, the head of the women’s section of the prison, told The Courier Mail.   

‘Also, she does not break any of the regulations in the jail.’

Connor’s ex boyfriend and accomplice David Taylor, from the UK, is serving a six-year sentence for his part in the officer’s death.

He also received a one-month sentence reduction for Christmas for his role in the attack on Mr Sudarsa. 

In 2017, Connor was found guilty of fatal assault in company as Mr Wayan didn’t die directly of his wounds but from a brain haemorrhage caused by them not being treated.   

Connor previously said the ‘nightmare’ was supposed to be a relaxing holiday.

Connor's ex boyfriend and accomplice David Taylor, from the UK, is serving a six year sentence for his part in the cop killing. Pictured: Connor and Taylor embrace during a re-enactment of the events leading up to Wayan Sudarsa's death

Connor’s ex boyfriend and accomplice David Taylor, from the UK, is serving a six year sentence for his part in the cop killing. Pictured: Connor and Taylor embrace during a re-enactment of the events leading up to Wayan Sudarsa’s death

Connor holds a walkie talkie as she re-enacts the events leading up to the police officer's death

Connor holds a walkie talkie as she re-enacts the events leading up to the police officer’s death

She had touched down in Denpasar airport, and met up with Taylor to have drinks before going to Kuta Beach and cuddling at the water’s edge.

Connor noticed she had lost her purse, and a suspicious Taylor confronted the police officer and began frisking him.

The situation violently escalated.

Connor claimed she was bitten by Mr Sudarsa when trying to separate the pair, and ran away, ending her involvement.

Taylor, ‘in fear of his life’, struck Mr Sudarsa over the head with a beer bottle.

When Mr Sudarsa was motionless, Taylor took the officer’s identification cards.

At Connor’s trial, the judges said she cut up Mr Sudarsa’s ID cards not to protect his identity and stop them from being stolen, but because she panicked and felt guilty.   

Taylor later told Connor the police officer was ‘passed out’ on the beach.

Remissions are given on December 25 and on Indonesia's Independence Day in August, and if Connor receives another one she could walk free mid next year after serving just four years

Remissions are given on December 25 and on Indonesia’s Independence Day in August, and if Connor receives another one she could walk free mid next year after serving just four years

They had no idea, they claimed, of the seriousness of Mr Sudarsa’s injuries.

Dr Dudut Rustyadi, who performed the autopsy on Mr Sudarsa, told their trials it would have taken him at least two hours to die and had someone intervened he might have been saved.  

Instead, Connor and Taylor returned to their hotel, cut up Mr Sudarsa’s cards and left for nearby Jimbaran later that morning.

Two days later, Connor turned on her mobile phone and learned of his death. 

Despite Connor’s imminent release, fellow prisoner Heather Mack didn’t get any time shaved off her 10 year sentence for killing her mother in 2014. 

The American woman and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer stuffed her murdered mother’s corpse into a suitcase at a posh Bali hotel in a twisted plot to take her inheritance.

Police officer Wayan Sudarsa was found dead face down and covered in sand on Kuta Beach in 2016

Police officer Wayan Sudarsa was found dead face down and covered in sand on Kuta Beach in 2016

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