Alarm in Bali over heavily tattooed Aussie tourist causing chaos in his undies – as we reveal the disturbing inside story
An Australian tourist completely tattooed from head to toe is causing chaos 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 54-year-old Mark Paul Barry has been at the center of a spate of incidents on the tourist island, with some locals complaining that his recent, very public arrest was the ‘yetth’ time he has been in trouble recently causes.
According to local police reports, Barry recently visited the beaches of Kuta and Legian and “behaved in a disturbing manner… wandering the streets wearing only boxing trunks without a shirt.” According to the reports, he is often ‘heavily drunk’.
On his most recent occasion, last Thursday at around 9pm, Barry was pictured sprawled out in his underpants outside the entrance to the Love Fashion Hotel.
The incident – captured in an unflattering photo – sparked a frantic investigation by Balinese police and immigration officials and the chagrin of locals who had already seen too much of Barry.
The Mail can reveal Barry, from the Brisbane suburb of Bald Hills, has an extensive 22-page criminal history at home.
Mark Paul Barry, 54, was stretched out outside the Love Fashion Hotel in Legian, Bali, last week after going on a public rampage and holding up traffic in his underpants several times in recent weeks
Mark Barry, from Brisbane, has worried several people on Bali’s Kuta and Legian beaches after he shouted incoherently and spun around while reportedly ‘heavily drunk’.
Barry, who is a motorcycle enthusiast himself, has his face and neck covered with tattoos of skulls, an ‘anarchy’ symbol, a number ’12’ and ‘mom’ and ‘dad’ on his neck.
Balinese media reported that Batty is “often seen around Kuta Beach wearing only boxer shorts” and that “in several incidents he walked around shirtless and shouted randomly, causing unrest among residents and other hotel guests.”
This caused his ‘cheap budget hotel’ (not Love Fashion) to ask him to check out.
Detik Bali reports this that ‘Barry also often appeared in the Legian area while heavily intoxicated, to the point where he stopped motorcyclists, and Kuta police sent him back to where he was staying.
“The community reported again on Thursday, September 29, 2023 that his presence was disrupting the peace in the area.”
Last week, Bali police arrested Barry for “acting and creating an uncomfortable atmosphere on Kuta Beach Street.”
According to Bali PrawaraBarry “was difficult to communicate with and was often hyperactive and difficult to calm down.”
Police talk to Barry outside Love Fashion hotel but say he wasn’t communicating well so they recommended taking him to Bali’s main hospital
Police outside the Love Fashion Hotel in Legian last Thursday around 9pm when Barry ended up there after shouting incoherently and directing traffic in his underpants
Police said: ‘He wasn’t connecting and was just chatting, so we took him to the Prof. Ngoerah Hospital for medical treatment.
“While in hospital, the foreigner started ranting and behaving hyperactively. He even took off all his clothes so he was only wearing short underwear.”
This was despite Barry calling an Indonesian woman who was present and allegedly giving him a sedative.
On his Instagram account, Barry is pictured with a young woman in Bali.
Comments on social media alongside photos of Barry sprawled outside the Love Fashion Hotel suggested the public had seen him before.
One said: ‘This is the umpteenth time this has happened’, while another wrote ‘wow’. I met you on Thursday evening in Legian’.
Barry has a previous criminal record in Queensland for drug offences, and was refused bail in 2020 after being arrested for aggravated assault and threatening violence.
Heavily tattooed Mark Barry outside Anything Bali Ink during his recent stay in Bali, allegedly disturbing the public peace in his underpants
Barry was photographed in even smaller underwear in the Prof. Ngoerah Hospital in Bali, ‘where he started acting hyperactive, taking off all his clothes so that he was only wearing short underwear’
During a bail application at a Brisbane court, Barry said he was asking for release to make an appointment with a neurosurgeon regarding a spinal tumor.
The court heard he had ’22 pages of criminal history, mainly involving drugs, but had rarely been to court in the last eight years’ and had ‘only been to prison once, in 2009’.
Magistrate Melanie Ho refused his application.
According to media reports, Barry pleaded guilty last year to enlisting people incarcerated at the Arthur Gorrie Correctional Center to put a bounty on someone’s head over a property dispute.
The Pine Rivers Magistrates Court heard Barry had also solicited other crimes to be committed on his behalf while behind bars, including asking people from outside to break into a house and steal a car and allegedly uttering death threats on a suburban street.
Mark Barry has posted photos of himself in Bali with a young woman on his social media account. It is unknown if she is the one he called to help after he was arrested and she brought him a sedative
The court was told Barry made gun gestures to a victim’s head, saying: ‘You’re bloody king dead’, and made cutting movements across his throat.
Barry pleaded guilty to stalking, assault occasioning bodily harm – domestic violence, unlawful use of a motor vehicle, fraud, breach of bail and other domestic violence offences.
His lawyer told the court that Barry suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder due to incidents during childhood, as well as other mental health problems.