When Australian woman Sara Connor and her British boyfriend discovered they had been involved in the death of a Bali police officer, she says it was his idea to burn the clothes they had been wearing.
"He mentioned burn the clothes and I said, 'Let's just chuck them away I want to go to the consulate'," she told Denpasar Court on Tuesday.
"He wanted to burn it. I didn't complain. I was so sad that someone had just lost his life."
Connor and her British boyfriend David Taylor were calm on Tuesday as they each faced a series of questions from judges and prosecutors about what happened the night they allegedly killed local cop Wayan Sudarsa.
The pair are facing charges of murder, fatal assault in company and assault causing death over the alleged killing of Mr Sudarsa, whose bloodied body was discovered on Kuta Beach in the early hours of August 17 last year.
Taylor said he confronted Mr Sudarsa after Connor lost her purse on the beach.
Despite Mr Sudarsa telling Taylor he was a cop, the British man became "suspicious" and began frisking him.
"I was angry because the purse was missing and there was money in it," Taylor told the court through an interpreter.
During the fight that followed, Taylor said Mr Sudarsa was on top of him and pressing his elbow onto his neck.
Wielding a beer bottle, Taylor struck Mr Sudarsa to the side of the head causing a "splatter of blood".
"When I finally got out (from underneath Mr Sudarsa), I was so afraid and so I just ran away."
He said he went back to check on Mr Sudarsa, turning his body so that he faced up and noticed he was still breathing.
Taylor took Mr Sudarsa's identification cards, which he and Connor later destroyed when they returned to their hotel near Kuta Beach.
"I didn't know anything that serious has happened. The only thing I wanted to do was protect his identity. I didn't have the need to conceal evidence," Connor told the court, adding it was her idea to throw it away.
It wasn't until the 19th, Connor says that she heard the news that her photo identification had been found near the body of Mr Sudarsa.
Taylor described their decision to burn their clothes that day before going to the Australian consulate as a "foolish mistake".
"I was thinking I was in foreign country. I was panicking and desperate."
Asked whether he would have felt guilty about what he had done if he had been able to leave Indonesia without being arrested, Taylor replied: "I didn't feel guilty until I learnt the consequences of that incident."
It is expected prosecutors will outline the sentences they think the pair deserve when Taylor's matter returns to court next week.
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