David Taylor and Sara Connor were arrested today as they were seeking protection at the Australian Consulate in Denpasar.

It follows the death of Wayan Sudarsa.two days ago. The traffic police officer’s bloodied body was found early on Wednesday on the beach outside the Pullman Hotel in Kuta, while Connor’s handbag was discovered nearby, police said.

His body was found on the beach with 17 open wounds to the head after being repeatedly hit with a blunt object, believed to be a beer bottle.

epa05498923 British national David Taylor (C, with hood) is escorted by police officers after he was arrested over the alleged murder of a police officer in Bali, Indonesia, 19 August 2016. Taylor and an Australian woman, whose name was given as Sara Connor, were arrested by Bali police over the murder of a local policeman on Kuta Beach. The body of police officer Wayan Sudarsa was found with deep wounds to his head and neck on Kuta beach on 17 August 2016. EPA/STRINGER

Statements from nine witnesses led to the arrests, Bali police chief Major General Sugeng Priyanto said.

Maj Gen Priyanto said he interrogated Connor and she stated that she had been at that location with Taylor but had been drunk and could not remember what happened.

She also said her handbag was missing, Maj Gen Priyanto said

Taylor refused to be questioned while waiting for a lawyer, the police chief said.

Connor, who entered Bali on August 16, and Taylor, who arrived on July 29, have been banned from leaving Bali at the request of police, the chief of Ngurah Rai immigration office, Yoseph Renung Widodo, said.

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