The dilemmas facing Sara Connor
The four year sentence is a far cry from the resounding not guilty verdict she long appeared to expect.
Jewel Topsfield is Fairfax's Indonesia correspondent. She is an award-winning journalist who has been with Fairfax Media for 10 years. Most recently, she was education editor at The Age for five years. Prior to that she was the launch deputy editor of the National Times, Fairfax’s online opinion site. She also spent three years in the Canberra Press Gallery covering immigration, education, the environment and water.
The four year sentence is a far cry from the resounding not guilty verdict she long appeared to expect.
The Byron Bay mother of two was found guilty of fatal group assault over the death of a Bali police officer.
David Taylor, the boyfriend of Byron Bay woman Sara Connor, has been sentenced to six years' jail over the death of a Balinese police officer.
Seven month after a policeman's body was found at Legian beach, Sara Connor and David Taylor have arrived in a Bali court ahead of verdicts and sentences in their trial.
Seven gruelling months after the brutally bashed body of a police officer was found on a Kuta beach, a panel of judges will today deliver a verdict in the Sara Connor murder trial.
Former war correspondent David Fox expressed his relief and gratitude to a Balinese court for recognising the "circumstances of my peculiar case" after he was sentenced to just seven months' jail for possessing hashish.
Minister says the TPP is a "work in progress" and concedes Australia and India are doing a "stocktake" on a trade deal due to have been wrapped up by the end of 2015.
Prosecutors requested the Byron Bay woman serve the same jail sentence as her British DJ boyfriend, even though the couple testified she had nothing to do with the police officer's death.
A prosecutor has requested an Australian man who self-medicated with cannabis to treat chronic pain be jailed for a year after he was arrested with hashish in Bali last year.
Prime Minister treads carefully on South China Sea, Washington's latest immigration measures at regional summit in Jakarta.
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