Aussie murder-accused Sara Connor wants to return home to her children
An Australian mother accused of killing a Bali police officer says she needs to go home to her children for Christmas, describing her ordeal as a "nightmare".
Sara Connor and her British boyfriend Dave Taylor are on trial over the murder of Bali police officer Wayan Sudarsa, whose bloodied body was discovered early on August 17 on Kuta Beach.
"I would love to go back to my kids and to Australia... I'm sure they need their mother," she told an Indonesian court.
Aussie mum Sara Connor wants to go home to her two young children. Source: 7News
Murdered Bali police officer Wayan Sudarsa. Source: 7News
"We’re very, very close. [This is] a nightmare."
The 46-year-old maintains she did nothing but try to separate Mr Sudarsa from her British boyfriend, who she says is "not an aggressive person".
Connor and British boyfriend Dave Taylor. Source: 7News
Taylor had accused the officer of stealing the Byron Bay mother’s purse before the alleged fight broke out.
The police veteran died from serious head injuries and more than 40 other wounds to his body.
For the first time since her arrest - Connor was able to protest her innocence in court on Friday and answer some of the allegations against her.
"I deny to have touched him or I have never hit this guy. I was there to separate them and I got attacked, got scared and let them there," Connor told reporters.
"I have never hit this guy."
Aussie mum Sara Connor. Source: 7News
"I was there to separate them and I got attacked. I got scared and left them there."
Earlier on Thursday, motorbike taxi driver Gede Suartama told Denpasar Court he saw Connor on the night of the alleged murder and she had asked him to take her to the police.
But her singlet had blood on it, so he refused.
"I asked him twice," Connor told the court in response to the testimony.
Taylor and Connor arrive in court. Source: 7News
"I tried to jump on the motorbike twice and told him: 'take me to the police station'. He asked me for money.
"That is when I told him my bag was stolen."
Surfboard and umbrella rental shop owner Zaenal Rakhi El Faqih told Taylor's trial on Wednesday he saw the British man about 1.45am on August 17 on the road near Kuta Beach.
Taylor, he said, was holding a flashlight and was "covered with blood".
Mr Faqih told the court he thought the 35-year-old was drunk and had been in a fight so he did not stop.
Taylor and Connor face charges of murder, fatal assault in company and assault causing death, with prosecutors alleging they attacked Wayan Sudarsa on Kuta Beach on the night of August 16 and left his lifeless body in the sand.
Aussie mum Sara Connor. Source: 7News
Connor faces the prospect of spending Christmas inside Bali's Kerobokan prison, but she said her thoughts are with her two young boys at home, saying she has never been away from them for so long.
“I would love to go back to my kids and to Australia,” Connor said.
“I miss them.
“I’ve never been so far away from them.
“I think about them all the time. It’s very tough to be away from them.”
Connor will return to court on Tuesday, and Taylor will return on Wednesday.
