The nightmare is over for Australian teenager Jamie Murphy who has been released from a Bali police station after the suspicious white powder he was found carrying proved to be nothing more than painkillers.
The 18-year-old Perth school leaver was arrested in the early hours of Monday morning at Sky Garden nightclub in Kuta after the substance he was said to be carrying was confirmed as nothing more than a mix of painkillers, cough medicine and caffeine.
Blood and urine tests on Murphy also came back negative for illicit drugs.
Sky Garden Management has now apologised for their handling of the teenager’s arrest and reprimanded one of their security officers — who was photographed aggressively grabbing Murphy’s face while holding him by the neck — for using ‘excessive force’.
