Overview

• Prof Ngoerah Hospital rejected organ-theft allegations, saying Byron Haddow’s heart was retained for forensic testing and later sent to Queensland.
• The 23-year-old Queenslander was found in a plunge pool on May 26, and his body was repatriated about a month later without the heart, which arrived in mid-August.
• Balinese police plan to ask the Australian Federal Police to help obtain statements from three Australians believed to have been with Haddow before he died.
• A Bali forensic report found alcohol and duloxetine in his system and recorded minor blunt-force injuries deemed non-fatal, with signs he was breathing in the water.
• Haddow’s family and lawyers question the handling by local authorities and the Australian consulate, cite a reported $700 fee to return the heart, and seek reviews of CCTV and financial transactions.