‘I want people to be warned’: son forced to remove tubes from father’s septic body after death in Bali hospital

Jake Harvey, Wayne’s son. ‘I want people to be warned that when the going gets tough, the consulate will not have your back.’ Photograph: David Kelly/The Guardian

Jake Harvey remembers vividly the moment he was told in a Balinese hospital that he had just two hours to remove his father’s dead body from the intensive care ward.

He had just watched his father, Wayne, die, but within minutes he was told he had to “unplug” him – leaving him to work out how to remove a catheter and a tube that was still down his father’s throat.