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Mr Byrne said he was shocked to hear Leeza Ormsby, a New Zealand national working in Sydney, had been arrested, apparently after a tip-off to police that drugs were in the villa. Ms Ormsby now faces a possible year jail sentence if she is found guilty of drug possession charges after g of ecstasy and 27g of hashish were allegedly found in a villa to which she held the keys.

Mr Byrne, who met Ms Ormsby for the first and only time at a dinner on his final night in Bali, is adamant there were no drugs in the house when he left. My close friends would know me from time to time to be the instigator of tearing a hole through reality and finding the eighth day of the week. The group, along with a few other Australian tourists, had a meal at a Mexican restaurant in Seminyak. They then went to the villa to drink wine, relax and hang out and the guests are understood to have later returned to their own accommodation.

Mr Byrne saw his mate again the next evening before he and his partner travelled to Ngurah Rai Airport where they gave their friend a key to the villa to stay that final night. An Italian Australian man is also understood to have been taken into custody, although he has since left Bali after being interviewed by Indonesian authorities.

The first three nights were booked through an Australian travel agent at the Oasis Lagoona at Sanur. The pair flew home to Sydney on February 11, happy and relaxed. Indonesia is known for its tough penalties on drugs. If found guilty of possession, Ms Ormsby could face 20 years in prison, but if found guilty of drug trafficking, she could face the death penalty.

Mr Djoko confirmed on Sunday that police had brought a "bule" - a white foreigner - in the police car with them as searches and interviews were conducted on the day of Ormsby's arrest.

A member of staff at Villa Askara, where Ormsby was arrested, says one Australian man was in the police car as plain clothes officers waited to ambush Ormsby with the key to the villa at 8am on the morning of her arrest. But, "he was someone who had just met up with Orsmby," Mr Djoko said. We released him after we finished the interrogation and found no evidence he was involved in the case.

Another foreigner, known as Marco, was also reportedly seen at the police station on the night of Ormsby's arrest, but has since been let go.

Byrne has told News Ltd newspapers that he knew nothing about the drugs and that he believes Ormsby is innocent. Mr Djoko said on Sunday that the drug paraphernalia found at the Villa in Canggu, north Kuta, had yielded no hard evidence of who owned it. Observers of the way police investigations work in Bali suggests that the Australian man seen in the police car might have been involved in what's known locally as a "head exchange".

Such an exchange means a person who has been arrested points the finger at somebody else, and once the second arrest is made, the first person is released. British drug mule grandmother Lindsay Sandiford is now on death row even though she continued with a controlled delivery of the cocaine she had imported to Bali.

Her actions exposed her co-conspirators, but the alleged kingpins received significantly lighter prison sentences while she faces the firing squad. Please try again later.

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Hashish and MDMA, the ingredient of ecstasy, were found in a locked drawer. Ormsby had the key to the drawer as part of the bunch of keys, but denied the drugs were hers. She had not pointed the finger of blame at Byrne. Under Indonesia's strict drug laws, Ormsby could face decades in prison. Byrne is a former boyfriend of Veronica's singer Jess Origliasso. Staff at the villa say Marco was the one who recommended Byrne stay at the villa. However, it's not always a reliable way of getting out of trouble in Bali.

Mr Ary was the lawyer for one of the leniently treated men, Julian Ponder.