Australian Shaun Edward Davidson, 31, was among the escapees. Photo/News Corp Australia
Australian Shaun Edward Davidson, 31, was among the escapees. Photo/News Corp Australia
By Cindy Wockner, News Corp Australia Network
Bail jail escapee Shaun Edward Davidson has made up his own wanted posters as he continues to taunt police more than a month after he and three others tunnelled out of Kerobokan prison.
The mock-up missing person and wanted posters are the latestaddition to a Facebook page which Davidson is believed to have been using since he went on the run.
The Perth man has also messaged Interpol, who have been called in to help track him down, asking how close they really are to finding him.
Australian Shaun Davidson may have vanished to another island after escaping Bali's Kerobokan prison to avoid deportation back to an Australian jail. Photo / AAP
The cheeky posts are on the Facebook page of Matthew Rageone Ridler, which carries Davidson's photos and on which he regularly makes comments about his life on the run and where friends contact him, congratulating him on evading authorities for so long.
The latest post is a mock up of a missing person poster, containing Davidson's photograph and a fingerprint and magnifying glass.
"Last known whereabouts, Kerobokan Prison, Bali, Indonesia. Last seen 18/07/2017. Possible whereabouts: Not sure but we're close," the poster says.
It replaced another wanted poster, which captioned his photo "Straight outta Kerobokan" and offered a Huge Reward.
He also brazenly messaged Interpol's Manila secretariat: "hey hows it going just wondering when you say close how close are you really?"
Davidson has also taken the opportunity, while on the run, to offer his followers some stock market advice as well as applauding himself for his criminal antics.
"I've been a free man now for 30 full days I've left fans amazed police and governments dazed who wouldv thought id be ontop with my cheeky smartass ways," he wrote recently.
Davidson and three other foreign prisoners escaped from Kerobokan prison in the early hours of June 19, fleeing via an old 15 metre sewage tunnel, which exited the prison just outside the jail walls and in the shadow of an unmanned guard tower.
Two of the four - Bulgarian Dimitar Nikolov Iliev and Indian Sayed Mohammed Said - were captured several days later in Dili, the capital of East Timor, as they attempted to get a charter boat.
A recent re-enactment of the brazen escape, in which the duo played themselves and the roles of Davidson and another man were played by police, showed how the four escaped by knocking a hole in their cell wall and climbing out.
They then spent four hours, in heavy rain, bailing water out of the escape tunnel, behind the jail's doctor clinic, before going down and crawling out.
Iliev and Said then changed their clothes and took a taxi to Bali airport, where they met an associate and collected cash and a suitcase before heading to the airport where they met another man who gave them flight tickets to Kupang in West Timor in exchange for $1000.
Davidson, who was first out of the tunnel, has not been seen since. Nor has Malaysian drug smuggler, Tee Kok King, who was the second to escape.
A view of the tunnel that an Australian man and three other foreigners are believed to have escaped through outside Kerobokan prison in Bali. Photo / AAP
Bali authorities are remaining tight-lipped on what their intelligence shows about Davidson and his movements since he fled the prison.
And they have scoffed at his Facebook check-ins, where he has claimed to have been swanning around in Amsterdam, Germany and Dubai. Whilst he has checked-in at these places he has never posted a photograph of himself in any of them.
A GoFundMe page for Davidson, believed to have been set up by Davidson's friends, raised just $65 before it was shut down by the administrators for violating the terms of service of GoFundMe.
Shaun Davidson (centre with black bandana) parties with friends in Bali's Engine Room nightclub. Photo / Facebook
The site, Fund a Fugitive, was supposedly set up to keep the "hilarious saga" of Davidson's life on the run going.
At the time of his escape Davidson had just 10 weeks left to serve of his one-year jail term on immigration offences, including using the passport of another Australian man who had reported it lost.
He is however wanted on drugs charges in Perth and at the completion of his Bali sentence would have been immediately deported to Australia to face court in his home town, and a likely jail term.
