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SNOWING IN BALI

His story was breaking news, with people keenly following the hunt; even inmates were watching. After seeing his photo in a newspaper, one woman at Bali's Kerobokan Prison, nicknamed Black Monster, claimed Marco had fathered her baby — although the baby had actually been conceived through the bars of her cell door with a Scottish prisoner.

Now, as they pulled into the marina, police and spectators were swarming around the boat laden with the notorious fugitive and his suspected cohorts. Armed police took Marco from the boat, through the throng and across to a black Kijang with dark, tinted windows — and four armed police sitting inside.

The boy Roni sat beside Marco, and asked him en route why he had lied to him; if he'd known the truth he could have hidden Marco so well that police would never have found him.

They took the ferry to another island, Lombok. Again swarms of locals and police were at the harbour. It wasn't every day they caught such a big fish. The police blindfolded Marco, then pulled a black hood over his head. He was petrified, making no wisecracks now, not knowing what torture lay ahead. Roni, still sitting beside him, tried calming his anxious friend. At their destination, Marco was taken into a five-star hotel and handcuffed to a bed. When they took off the black hood and undid the blindfold, he saw a dozen police around the room, holding submachine-guns, with a continuous stream of others coming in and out, taking a look at the notorious fugitive.

The relentless interrogation went for three days. They were accusing Roni of helping the fugitive to elude capture. Marco kept telling them the kid had no idea, asking them to let him go. Police were also trying to locate the other man locals had

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