An Australian tourist who is completely tattooed from head to toe is causing mayhem in his underwear in Bali by repeatedly ranting in public and stopping traffic on the famous Kuta Beach.
Daily Mail Australia can exclusively reveal that Mark Paul Barry, 54, has been at the center of a series of incidents on the resort island, with some locals complaining his recent, very public arrest was the “umpteenth” time that caused problems recently.
Local police reports state that Barry has recently frequented the beaches of Kuta and Legian and “acted in a disturbing manner… wandering the streets wearing only boxers and no shirt.” Reports say he is often “very drunk.”
On the most recent occasion, last Thursday around 9pm, Barry was photographed lying in his boxers outside the entrance to the Love Fashion Hotel.
The incident, captured in an unflattering photograph, sparked a frantic investigation by Balinese police and immigration officials and exasperation from locals who had seen too much of Barry before.
The Mail can reveal Barry, from the Brisbane suburb of Bald Hills, has a lengthy 22-page criminal record in his country.
Mark Paul Barry, 54, lay down outside the Love Fashion Hotel in Legian, Bali, last week after publicly ranting and stopping traffic in his underwear several times in recent weeks.
Mark Barry, from Brisbane, has worried several people in the Kuta and Legian coastal areas of Bali after he screamed incoherently and rolled around while allegedly “very drunk”.
Barry, who is a self-confessed motorcycle lover, has his face and neck covered in tattoos of skulls, an “anarchy” symbol, a number “12” and “mum” and “dad” on his neck.
Balinese media reported that Batty “is often seen hanging around Kuta Beach wearing only boxers” and that “in several incidents, he was seen walking around shirtless and shouting indiscriminately, causing concern among residents and other hotel guests.” “.
This caused her ‘cheap budget hotel’ (not Love Fashion) to ask her to leave.
Detik Bali reported that ‘Barry also often appeared in the Legian area being very drunk, to the point of stopping motorcyclists and being told by the Kuta police to return to where he was staying.
‘The community reported again on Thursday, September 29, 2023 that their presence was disturbing the peace in the area.’
Last week, Bali police arrested Barry for “misbehaving and creating an uncomfortable atmosphere on Kuta Beach Street.”
According Bali PrawaraBarry “was difficult to communicate with and tended to be hyperactive and difficult to calm down.”
The police speak to Barry outside the Love Fashion hotel, but they say he wasn’t communicating well, so they recommended he be taken to Bali’s largest hospital.
Police outside the Love Fashion Hotel in Legian around 9pm last Thursday when Barry ended up there after shouting incoherently and directing traffic in his underpants.
Police said he “was not connecting and was just babbling, so we took him to Prof. Ngoerah Hospital for medical treatment.”
“While at the hospital, the foreigner began ranting and behaving hyperactively, even taking off all his clothes and only wearing short underwear.”
This was despite Barry calling an Indonesian woman who attended and allegedly giving her a sedative.
On his Instagram account, Barry appears photographed with a young woman in Bali.
Social media comments posted alongside photographs of Barry lying outside the Love Fashion Hotel indicated the public had seen him before.
One person commented ‘this is the umpteenth time this has happened’ while another wrote ‘wow’. I met you this Thursday night in Legian.
Barry has a criminal record in Queensland for drug offences, and was refused bail in 2020 after being arrested for serious assault and threat of violence.
Heavily tattooed Mark Barry outside Which Bali Ink during his recent stay in Bali, during which he allegedly disturbed the peace in public in his underwear.
Barry was photographed wearing an even smaller pair of underwear at Bali’s Prof. Ngoerah Hospital, “where he began behaving hyperactively, taking off all his clothes and only wearing short underwear.”
During a bail application in a Brisbane magistrates court, Barry said he was seeking release to make an appointment with a neurosurgeon in relation to a tumor on his spine.
The court heard he “had a 22-page criminal record, mainly for drugs, but had rarely appeared in court” in the previous eight years” and had “only been jailed once, in 2009”.
Magistrate Melanie Ho rejected his request.
Last year, Barry pleaded guilty to recruiting people while incarcerated inside the Arthur Gorrie Correctional Center to place a bounty on someone’s head over a property dispute, according to media reports.
Pine Rivers Magistrates Court heard Barry had also requested other crimes to be committed on his behalf while he was behind bars, including asking outsiders to break into a house and steal a car and allegedly threatening to kill him on a street. suburban.
Mark Barry has posted photos of himself in Bali with a young woman on his social media account. It is unknown if she was the one he called to help after he was arrested and she brought him a sedative.
The court was told Barry gestured with the gun towards the victim’s head saying “you’re dead” as well as making cutting movements to his throat.
Barry pleaded guilty to stalking, assault causing bodily harm – domestic violence, unlawful use of a motor vehicle, fraud, bail jumping and other domestic violence offences.
His lawyer told the court Barry suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder due to incidents during childhood, as well as other mental health problems.
