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British man, 60, found murdered in a Bali rice paddy with his throat cut


Body of Robert Kelvin Ellis, 60, has been discovered in Bali rice field
He was found with his throat cut and his hands tied north of Denpasar
Father-of-two was living in Australia, but had a British passport

A British man has been found dead in a rice paddy in Bali, his hands tied and his throat cut.
The body of Robert Kelvin Ellis, 60, was found wrapped in plastic and dumped in a ditch in the rice field near Sedang Village.
Bali police said a bed cover had also been put over the body, whose hands and feet were tied.



Officials confirmed that Mr Ellis, who has been living in Australia, had a UK passport, and is believed to have moved to the seaside area of Sanur, Bali with his Indonesian wife.
He is understood to have two sons who are studying in Australia.


‘There is no doubt this was an execution-style murder,’ said a senior police officer in the Bali capital, Denpasar.
Mr Ida Bagus Putu Alit, who heads the district’s forensic team, said Mr Ellis’ throat had been slashed three times.
‘One of the wounds to the throat was fatal, but he also had several bruises around his head, suggesting he had been knocked to the ground before receiving the fatal throat wound,’ said Mr Putu.





A mobile phone and a large mat was found in close proximity to the body, local authorities said.
Detective Wisnu Wardana said the body is believed to have been lying in the ditch for several days as it was in a state of decay.
The rice paddy where the body was found lies between the popular coastal area of Kuta and the hillside town of Ubud.
‘There was a deep wound to the neck that had almost completely cut the head,’ said Detective Wisnu.
Police believe the mat found in the ditch was used to wrap the body and carry it to the rice paddy to be dumped.

‘At the moment we are still investigating the victim’s house in Sanur to establish if there are any traces of violence there…whether it can be classified as a crime scene,’ said police officer Komang Suartana.
‘We are are also questioning his wife, partly to find out when she last saw him.’
It is understood Mr Ellis went missing in the early hours of last Sunday morning.
There were bruises around his mouth and his right cheek, as well as on both his upper arms, suggesting he had been restrained.
It is understood that Mr Ellis and his wife had been living in the Emerald Villas, a luxury complex in the Balinese seaside district of Sanur.
Although the villas are for rent by holidaymakers, local media said that Mr Ellis and his wife were believed to have purchased one of the villas.

British man Robert Kelvin Ellis found dead in Bali rice paddy with throat cut | Daily Mail Online

Those things happen....

The Burmese did it...Really...We can prove it...There are ciggy butts and a used condom....

THE wife of a man found murdered in Bali has confessed to ordering a hit on her husband and has tonight been declared a suspect in his grisly death.


And police in Bali say that one of his killers has been arrested.
Police said it would be alleged that Robert Kelvin Ellis’s wife, Julaikah Noor Aini, paid to have her husband murdered for many reasons, including claims that he often cheated on her.
Julaikah Noor Aini, who is Indonesian, is known as Noor Ellis.

Mr Ellis, a 60-year-old British national, is believed to have lived in Australia before moving to Bali to live.
Another three people are being hunted for involvement in the death.
Mr Ellis’ body was found wrapped in plastic and dumped in a ditch at Badung. His throat had been slashed and he had suffered neck wounds and the body was also covered by a bed sheet.
Badung police chief Komang Suartana said tonight: “We have appointed his wife as a suspect. We have also caught one of the killers and we are still pursuing three others.”

One killer had been arrested at Padang Bai in east Bali.
“The motive is because his wife felt embittered with the victim,” Suartana said.
“Because of many things. She said that her husband is often cheating on her. We allege that she paid the executioners to kill her husband.”

Man killed execution-style in Bali Victim ... Bali police bring the evidence found on and around Robert Kelvin Ellis’ body in a paddy field to detectives investigating the killing. Picture: Komang Erviani Source: News Corp Australia
Staff at the Emerald Villa complex in Sanur, where the couple lived, said the pair’s two sons studied in Australia.
Police originally said that Mr Ellis was an Australian but later revised this, saying it was understood he had spent time in Australia.

The body was found about 8am local time on Tuesday by a farmer near a rice field and was taken to Sanglah morgue for an autopsy.
The farmer originally saw the body in the ditch on Monday morning but did not realise it was a body until Tuesday, when he looked more closely.

A doormat and mobile phone were also found near the body, along with some US dollars.
Ida Bagus Putu Alit, the head of the forensic team, said the victim’s throat had been cut and there were three open wounds in the neck and chin.
He said the victim probably died about 18 to 24 hours before the body was found, so in the early morning of Monday.

Police have said that the couple was last seen together about 1.10pm on Sunday, leaving the villa complex by car.

http://www.news.com.au/world/asia/bo...-1227097757135

Terrible legacy for the two kids. RIP

never trust a bird with burgundy coloured hair.

Bob Ellis Bali murder: Wife Noor Ellis paid $14,000 to have him killed, police allege
2 HOURS AGO OCTOBER 23, 2014 7:25PM


AN INDONESIAN woman paid just $A14,000 for her Australian husband’s execution in Bali, police allege.
Robert Kevin Ellis’ two sons flew from Perth into Denpasar today, hoping to confront their mother Noor Ellis — who has been in police custody since Tuesday night — over the crime.

Accompanied by Mr Ellis’ brother David, 23-year-old John and 19-year-old Peter were to visit the luxurious Sanur villa where there father was slaughtered.

Noor Ellis allegedly gave the killers a down payment of 50 million Indonesian Rupiah, or $A4700, and then paid the full amount after the grisly job was done.
The $A14,200 was divided among the five executioners.

So far only one of them, 23-year-old Adrianus Ngongo, known as Ariel, has been arrested. Police say he had 30 million Rupiah or $A2800 — his share of the money — on him when arrested.

The bound body of 60-year-old Robert Ellis, an Australian businessman, living and working in Indonesia, was found wrapped in plastic and a bedcover and dumped in a ricefield ditch on Tuesday. His throat had been slashed.


Noor Ellis is accused of orchestrating the grisly killing.

Police allege she was present when the killing took place in the villa’s kitchen, and then helped dispose of the body.
Adrianus Ngongo was arrested at Padang Bai, attempting to catch a boat to Lombok. He is a native of Sumba, an island in the East Nusa Tengarra chain.
The couple’s two female housemaids are also in custody and named as suspects.
One of them is the girlfriend of Adrianus.

Police allege that while Mr Ellis was being murdered, the housemaids were outside the villa keeping the family’s dog quiet and calm and then later they cleaned up the blood and helped dump the body in a ricefield ditch.
Bali police spokesman, Hery Wiyanto said the perpetrators would be likely be charged with premeditated murder, which carries the death penalty in Indonesia.

He urged the four who are still on the run to give themselves up.
“We urge the four perpetrators to surrender to the police station because we are pursuing them, not only in Bali but also outside of Bali,” Wiyanto said.
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He said police were still working to find the knife, which was used to kill Mr Ellis and to uncover if the two housemaids were also paid for their role in the murder.
Police will charge the perpetrators under article 338 for murder and article 340, premeditated murder.
“Because it is obvious that there is a plan before the murder as she (Noor Ellis) told people to kill.
“Each suspect may be charged with different articles depending on their role.
“Our priority now is to pursue the four perpetrators.”

Noor — a longtime Royary Club Member in Bali and charity worker — was reportedly unhappy with her husband’s recent attempts to divide their assets, which included property and a number of successful businesses in the telecommunications, diving, hospitality and aviation industries.

Most were in Noor’s name because non-citizens are forbidden from owning property or businesses in Indonesia.
In the lead up to his death, Mr Ellis had reportedly been trying to secure Indonesian citizenship in order to regain control of those assets.
Police have also said Noor believed her husband had been cheating on her.

Bob Ellis Bali murder: Wife Noor Ellis paid $14,000 to have him killed, police allege

Poor chap, the wife and maids and maids boyfriend all ganging up to chop his head off. It all goes on in Sanur.

How are executions carried out in this neck of the woods?...

What money does to people is frightening.

Good reports. I'm not used to that here in LOS. Sad R.I.P.

Originally Posted by flyfisher davis

The Burmese did it...Really...We can prove it...There are ciggy butts and a used condom....

Should have put his body in a barrel in her basement ...That's how Thaivisa Mods do it

RIP Robert Ellis

Two men accused of killing Australian Robert Ellis in Bali reveal wife Noor picked them up


TWO of the men accused of killing Australian businessman Robert Ellis in Bali have revealed that they attempted to subdue and suffocate him with a towel before using a knife.

And, apparently close to tears, they say they now regret their actions.

The pair were arrested on Sumba, an island east of Bali, on Tuesday and were late on Thursday flown to Bali to face further interrogation about their role in the murder.
Before their flight the duo was visited in the police jail in Sumba by their tearful families, who arrived to say goodbye. Both men are believed to have apologised to their families for what has happened.

One of the arrested men, 23-year-old Urbanus Yohanes Ghoghi, is alleged to be the one who wielded the knife to cut Mr Ellis’ throat.



It is understood that he has told police that initially the group of five killers placed a towel over Mr Ellis’ mouth to suffocate him before his throat was cut to ensure he was dead.

Police investigating the October 19 murder of Mr Ellis have now arrested six people in relation to his death — including his Indonesian wife of 25 years, Noor Ellis, who is accused of hiring five men and paying them a total of $A14,000 to kill her husband.
The two latest men to be arrested, Urbanus and Yohanes Sairokodu, alias Yonis, have apparently told police that prior to the killing they were collected from a place in Sanur by Mrs Ellis and driven to the couple’s villa in the Emerald Villa complex where they were instructed to wait in the kitchen.

Police allege that when Mr Ellis arrived home he went to the kitchen area and his wife went to a bedroom and waited while he was murdered.
Facing murder charges ... Urbanus (handcuffed, left) and Yohanes (right) are taken to Bal

Mrs Ellis denies the allegations. According to her lawyer she had only got the men to give her a husband a stern talking to after the pair had been going through marital discord. The lawyer claims she had instructed there be no injuries to her husband and she was shocked to discover that he had been killed.


The two men were arrested after a two-hour police chase in the early hours of the morning during which police allege they were fired upon by the suspects using poison arrows and that police were forced to shoot them in the leg.

The pair, known as Urbanus, 23 and Yohanes, 22, were escorted handcuffed to the airport on Sumba Island late on Thursday, both with bandages around the gunshot injuries to their legs.

As they left the police station they were embraced by emotional family members.
Another of the five men, who police allege were the actual killers, was arrested soon after the murder. Another two are still on the run.



And two of the Ellis family’s housemaids have also been arrested. They are accused of calming the couple’s dog while the murder was underway, of cleaning up the murder scene and assisting to dump the body.


Mr Ellis’ body was found wrapped in plastic and dumped in a ride paddy ditch about 25km from the couple’s Sanur villa.

A well-known and respected businessman, Mr Ellis ran a successful telecommunications company in Jakarta and his wife ran a dive business in Bali. Their two sons were studying in Australia.


Two-hour stand-off and chase with police ... Machetes and arrows used by Urbanus and Yoha

Two-hour stand-off and chase with police ... Machetes and arrows used by Urbanus and Yohanes to try to flee from Indonesian Police during their arrest in Sumba over Robert Ellis’ murder in Bali.

I doubt Noor (and her lawyer) will convince anybody that she did not want him dead...What a lark...

Murder accused seeks to sell dead husband's land to pay for defence

Last October, the day after she allegedly had her multimillionaire Australian husband murdered, wrapped in plastic and dumped in a rice field in Bali, Indonesian woman Julaikah Noor Aini was still pretending to the couple's two sons that all was fine.

And now that she is in prison and facing charges for premeditated murder, her Australia-based sons, John, 23, and Peter Ellis, 20, say their mother has sought their permission to sell a piece of their father's land to fund her defence.

She needs permission because dealings in the land owned by her dead husband, Bob Ellis, are frozen while her criminal case is prepared.

Ms Noor's lawyer denies she has made the request, but her sons' lawyer, Any Aryany, is concerned that Ms Noor is cashing up and "trying to buy her freedom". The Bali legal system, from police to judges, is notoriously corrupt.

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On October 19 last year, a group of thugs hired by Ms Noor lay in wait in the kitchen inside the couple's luxury Sanur villa for the return of Mr Ellis. When he walked in carrying steaks for dinner, they set upon him, held him down and slit his throat. They then wrapped the body and Ms Noor drove it 25 kilometres and dumped it in a ditch beside a rice field.

The decaying body was only found two days later.

On October 20, the day after his father was murdered, but before the gruesome discovery, Peter wrote to his mother on messaging service, What'sApp.

"Where's dad?? Need to talk to him …" Peter wrote.

"His [sic] not home yet???" Ms Noor replied, then, "I will ask him when I see him".

"Okey [sic] he's in Bali?" Peter asked.

"Yes," Ms Noor said.

The next message comes from Peter two days later, after news broke of the murder: "Mum is it true what happened to dad??"

Peter and John, who are both students in Australia, say Ms Noor has admitted to them that she ordered the hit, but they still cannot understand her motives.

"I'm still clueless about what has happened and why," Peter said in a statement to Fairfax Media. "I have so many unanswered questions like, why she would murder our Dad? He did nothing wrong."

The boys have said they want justice done in the case, even if it means their mother being put in front of a firing squad. On legal advice, they say they have refused her request to sell a large piece of land in Sanur.

"Thinking about what mum could possibly do makes me anxious and sleep deprived. If it's possible for her to make negotiations and deals while she's behind bars, what else could she do?" Peter said.

But Ms Noor's lawyer, Nyoman Wisnu, denies any such request has been made.

"There's no talk about selling property or anything. Not to fund the legal defence. We haven't even talked about our fee for defending her."

He said his client had written to her sons but, "It was nothing. It was just a personal letter".

The sons are regular visitors to Bali, where their parents lived and ran several lucrative businesses, including a telecommunications supply company, hotels and a dive shop.

Peter Ellis said he had visited his mother in jail three times, but that, "it's still hard for me to see her".

"I try not to show any emotion or anger, but after what she has done it's really hard."

The last time he visited her, she had told him: "I'm the only one you have left, you need to help me".

They say that, in private and to the police, Ms Noor has admitted to ordering the hit. But in public her lawyer maintains she only wanted the thugs to "talk to" her husband, not kill him.

She has said the motivation was that Mr Ellis did not give her enough money, and that her family in Surabaya was poor. But friends of the family say that, in reality, she had up to $25,000 a month from the couple's businesses and was upset with Mr Ellis because he was trying to gain Indonesian citizenship. This would have meant he could own property in Bali in his own name, rather than through her.

Lawyer Ms Any said Ms Noor was attempting to rewrite history, telling the court that the land she is trying to sell had originally been bought by her own, Surabaya-based family.

Murder accused seeks to sell dead husband's land to pay for defence

"I'm still clueless about what has happened and why," Peter said.

Yes mate, you are.

Life is very very cheap in this part of the world.

Originally Posted by rickschoppers

Life is very very cheap in this part of the world.

A$ 14,000 to be exact according to post # 13.
F**king bi*ch...if she arranged it she deserves the worst..."dirty deeds done dirt cheap."

A right nasty piece of work. She may well buy her way out of it yet.

Hopefully, her "confused" sons will nail some of the doors shut...

Ellis son's Bali court statement 'forged'

THE son of an Indonesian woman accused of ordering the murder of her Australian husband denies making a statement read in her defence.
JOHN Ellis says the statement read in the trial on Wednesday, asking for a lenient sentence for his mother Noor Ellis, was forged.
The 23-year-old's father Robert Ellis was found dead in a Bali rice field in October last year.
The businessman's wife of 25 years could face the death penalty for plotting with her two maids and five men to ambush and kill him in their Sanur villa.
A defence lawyer for Ellis, who is known also as Julaikah Noor Aini, read a statement purported to be from her eldest son.
"The witness begs that if his mother is truly involved in this matter of the death of his father, the sentence for his mother be lenient because his mother is the family's backbone," Ketut Suwiga Arya Dauh read.
"For money to go to school, for food and drink as well, the witness and his brother must ask their mother's siblings."
John Ellis says that's not the statement he made to police on Christmas Day.
He has since learned of a statement with a forged signature, backdated to December 11, and his lawyers have filed a complaint.
He now wants the false statement retracted from the evidence.
He says he doesn't want to give any view about the sentence his mother deserves.
"We just want the justice system to do its thing," he told AAP.
However Robert Ellis' brother David Ellis, who attended court on Wednesday, didn't hesitate to give an opinion.
"I'd be happy with death, I've got no qualms about it," he told reporters outside court.
"At least a minimum of 20 years, you'd have to think anything less than that would not be justice."
He also foreshadowed a bitter battle over the estate, which Ellis still has control over.
The family would "ruthlessly" pursue his brother's fortune for his sons, David Ellis said.
Noor Ellis, who is due to be examined next week, has claimed she was a neglected wife, and became bitter when she was denied a divorce.
When asked at trial last week who ordered the hit, she replied "probably me".
David Ellis trashed the claims she was neglected.
"She had full access to everything she wanted and she could've walked away," he said.
"I never saw Noor with anything less than Rp 5 million ($500) on her and at least $10,000 worth of jewellery, never."

Ellis son's Bali court statement 'forged'

Seven people involved in the murder, she must of been very naive or stupid.

Amazes me how anyone would want to take there son's father away from them,and have him killed.

You can't judge a book by the cover. An open book she is not. Femme fatale for sure. Wouldn't get that from Porn. Not capable of such duplicitous deception. Another plus for a Thai woman of certain social breeding.

Originally Posted by thaimeme

Those things happen....

Another disgraceful post

RIP and hope she gets hers due

THE tearful wife and accused killer of murdered Australian businessman Bob Ellis has told how she loves the couple’s two sons despite their hatred for her.
Speaking shortly before her trial began in Denpasar District Court in Bali on Tuesday, Noor Ellis spoke through tears in Indonesian and English, asking where her sons Peter and John were after she was lead into court.
“I still love them even though they hate me. As a mother I still hope that they think that I am their mother,” she told News Corp Australia.



She also expressed a wish to live with them again one day.
“I still love him, really love him,” Noor Ellis said when asked what she wanted to say to her two sons, Peter and John.
“Hopefully I can stay together with him one day,” she said, adding that while she was a bad mother the children were everything to her.
Noor Ellis is now estranged from her two sons, who no longer want anything to do with her, since the contract killing of their father, Robert “Bob” Ellis.
Son Peter was not at court but later told News Corp Australia they could not forgive her.

“If she thinks that killing our father, ruining and changing our lives, we can’t forgive anyone for doing that,” Peter Ellis said.
Last week when Peter attended the court to watch her trial he shunned his mother’s advances and says she is no longer his mother but a murderer.
Prosecutors have recommended that Ellis be jailed for 15 years for the premeditated murder of her husband of 25 years, Bob Ellis, whose throat was cut in the couple’s Bali villa in October last year by hitmen hired by his wife.

And in a strident Prosecution closing address on Tuesday, the Prosecutor accused the defence of manipulating the facts and showing little regard to witness testimonies, of being disingenuous and harming the sense of justice.

Peter Ellis and other family members welcomed the strong comments.
The prosecution case is that the five hitmen were paid a total $14,000 for the grisly murder while Noor Ellis waited in a bedroom of the villa and the couple’s two housemaids, who are also charged, helped keep the dog quiet and cleaned up the murder scene.

Noor Ellis is then alleged to have helped the men dispose of her husband’s body which was wrapped in plastic and dumped in a rice paddy ditch.
In her defence Noor Ellis claims that she endured 11 years of an “accumulation of disappointment” with her husband, who she accused of womanising and of keeping money from her.

She denies asking the men to kill her husband, saying she only asked for the problem to be solved and for him to be taught a lesson and has begged the court to give her a lenient sentence.



Prosecutor Ida Ayu Sulasmi said on Tuesday that the defence lawyers had “manipulated the facts” with no regard to the witness testimony given at the trial and their arguments should be disregarded.

“It is very clear that the defendant has promised money, 150 Million Rupiah, to kill her husband, Robert Kevin Ellis. And at the time of the murder the defendant was also actively involved in picking up the killers, given them signs when the victim was coming to the villa, participated in dumping the body, also cleaned the victim’s body and the crime scene and disposed of the tools used to kill the victim,” Ms Sulasmi submitted to the court.

She said the defence lawyers had made fraudulent statements and were disingenuous, which greatly harms the sense of justice and legal certainty.
Ms Sulasmi said the prosecution had presented the facts as revealed during the trial meanwhile the defence arguments were inconsistent and eliminated the evidence in the form of witness testimonies heard in the court.
During the trial evidence had been called to show that five days before the murder Noor Ellis had asked one of the killers to find people to kill her husband and that three days before the murder she had taken the killers to survey the villa where Mr Ellis was killed.



The court will hand down the verdict and sentence on Wednesday next week.

Noor Ellis says she loves sons who hate her for husband?s murder