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Bali escapee Shaun Davidson insists he’s “safe” from authorities as an international manhunt continues for the West Australian.

Davidson, or someone purporting to be him, has again taken to social media to taunt police and suggest he could have fled as far afield as the Caribbean.

His most recent Facebook posts show him “checking in” at Cafe Luna in Oistins, Barbados on Wednesday AEST saying “dinner time I’m starving”.

A separate post about an “afternoon training session” was from the city’s First Fitness Gym.

Bali police on Tuesday said they were focusing their search for Davidson along the border between Indonesia and East Timor.

“They’re searching a few 1000 k’s I think I safe,” he told his 4800 Facebook friends.

But some of Davidson’s Facebook followers have pointed out how easy it is to appear to be anywhere in the world simply by updating Facebook status settings and using location changer apps.

In a message sent to News Corp via Facebook, Davidson said he would have been shot if he had been caught on the run in Indonesia, and that he had no faith in the Australian justice system.

“Them still thinking I’m in Indonesia is the best thing for me so they can keep looking and thinking I’m there, I’ll only be shot if I get caught inside Indonesia by Indonesian police and resist arrest none of those things will happen, I’m not Indonesia so thier (sic) police can’t and when and if ever Interpol come knocking I’m not gonna resist I’ve never resisted arrest,” he said.

“I just want to live the rest of my life happily I’ve retired and arnt doing anything that affects anyone else badly I’m living a normal life in a new place and am happy doing so.”

Davidson said he wasn’t bothered if people believed his social media posts or not.

“Ppl believe it it’s very entertaining that I can post my locations for real and everyone believes it’s not real including police haha,” he said.

Davidson, 33, from Perth has been the subject of a manhunt after he and three others escaped Bali’s Kerobokan prison on June 19.



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