Indonesia frees and deports American jailed over Bali ‘suitcase murder’

Heather Mack and her then-boyfriend Tommy Schaefer were convicted of murdering Mack’s mother Sheila von Wiese-Mack (AP)

Indonesia has freed and deported an American man after he spent 11 years in prison for the premeditated murder of his then-girlfriend’s mother on the tourist island of Bali.

Tommy Schaefer was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the 2014 murder of Sheila von Wiese-Mack, the mother of Heather Mack, during a luxury holiday in a case also known as the Bali “suitcase murder”.