On September 21, local time, the key details of the extraordinary deaths in Bali were first revealed. 23 year-old Australian man Byron Hado, who died in May this year, wasly found with a heart disappearance during a second body examination after returning to Queensland in Australia. The case is serious and the cause of Hado's death is still under investigation, and the words of the sad family are unacceptable.
It is reported that Hado was originally a worker working in a large-scale infrastructure project and had to fly to the construction site regularly to work shifts. On May 26th, he was found unconscious in the pool of a private villa in Bali. However, it was not until four days after his death that the matter was officially notified to the Bali police. When the police arrived at the villa, the scene had been damaged, and even the local forensic doctor described the case as "suspicious". In addition, the cause of death recorded in the death certificate is "drowning". However, Hado is 178cm tall, the depth of the swimming pool is only 150cm, and his own swimming ability is excellent, which is doubtful.
I was told before the funeral:
The heart remains in Bali.
Hado's parents bluntly said that they were extremely disappointed with the way the Indonesian police handled it. Hado's body was not transported back until nearly four weeks after his death, but just two days before the funeral, the Queensland coroner informed his family that Hado's heart had been taken away and left in Bali, without neither informing nor obtaining consent, nor any legal or moral justification. Family members denounced "this is inhumane" and called the blow "heartbreaking beyond words".
Furthermore, Hado’s body was covered with incisions and scratches, and blood marks on the towel on which the body was wrapped.These unusual details raised strong suspicions about the cause of death, and they immediately asked an Australian friend in Bali to help arrange a body examination, emphasizing in the mail that “the body must be fully returned.”
However, the family had to wait for months and pay an additional $700 ($3,200) to bring his son’s heart back to Australia. At present, his heart has been returned, but Hardy’s funeral and burial has long been over.
Cause of death:
Does alcohol kill or kill?
Guanavan, an Indonesian forensic doctor, explained that in addition to receiving a clinical examination request commissioned by her family, she also received a judicial examination request from the Bali police. According to Indonesian law, a judicial examination must be carried out priority, with the aim of finding out the cause and method of death in cases of suspicion, violence or unknown cause. Unlike ordinary examinations, a judicial examination often requires more detailed examination and may even take out important organs such as the heart or brain.
Gunawan emphasized: “In clinical examinations, the consent of close relatives must be obtained for the preservation of organs. But in judicial examinations, the consent is not required under the Indonesian Criminal Procedure Law. Preserving the entire organs to determine the cause of death is a common practice worldwide, and we cannot only do partial examinations.”
She ultimately decided that the possible cause of death was the mixture of alcoholism and the antidepressant duloxetine, which prevented Hado from escaping from the pool. But she also admitted that many cuts and bruises on the body could not be explained, and bluntly said, "I can't conclude whether it was an accident, suicide or homicide."
The case has been transferred to the Queensland Attorney General’s Court of Appeal and is currently under public investigation and no further details can be disclosed. The Hado family is still waiting with anxiety for Brisbane’s second screening, as well as the Australian Federal Police (AFP) investigation into his death in Bali. But they insist that this is not a mere accident. Mother Chantal says that the claim about his “suicide in a shallow water pool” can’t stand, and she believes that the son has been arrested, drugged and robbed, which eventually turned into a tragedy.
Red Star reporter Wang Yalin internship reporter Yang Poohyuk
Editor, Guo Yu