Why a Sydney socialite was forced to hire a private investigator after her model son was found face-down in a pool at a luxury villa in Bali

A Sydney socialite has been forced to prosecute a backstage researcher arsenic she tries to untangle the enigma of however her exemplary lad died abruptly successful Bali.

Aston Looker, an 18-year-old manner exemplary from Sydney, was recovered dormant successful the swimming excavation of his father's Balinese villa analyzable connected August 22.

But his mother, interior decorator Amanda Lennon, says it's inactive not wide however helium died, and that Indonesian authorities haven't been helpful.

No autopsy was performed connected Aston's assemblage and begetter Saxon Looker had him cremated 2 days aft helium died. Local constabulary didn't sojourn the country until astir 2 weeks aboriginal and recovered nary grounds of foul play.

'I felt DFAT (the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) gave america a pat connected the backmost astir our unspeakable news,' Ms Lennon told Good Weekend.

'That's wherefore I hired a backstage investigator. 

'I realise not everyone tin bash that but we had the means to. 

'Things enactment otherwise successful Bali. You person to play by a antithetic acceptable of rules; I needed idiosyncratic who knew that.' 

Ms Lennon hired Gold Coast-based backstage investigator Mick Featherstone to analyse the circumstances of Aston's death, on with his subordinate Darren Bowen and section lawyer Ni Luh Arie Ratna Sukasari.

Aston had a past of intelligence wellness issues. He had struggled with slump and ADHD, and his parent had disquieted successful the past that helium mightiness self-harm. 

But Ms Lennon doesn't deliberation her lad committed suicide, though she can't beryllium definite of anything. Without an autopsy, it's not adjacent wide if helium drowned.

In the lead-up to his death, Aston's intelligence wellness had worsened and helium spent 3 days successful a psych ward. Ms Lennon rented a beachside villa successful Bali, wherever the brace stayed unneurotic for respective weeks, and helium was prescribed psychiatric drugs including lithium.

Ms Lennon past booked him into an upmarket, therapeutic retreat called The Place, and returned to Australia.

During his three-week enactment astatine The Place, she stopped proceeding from her son, but erstwhile helium was checking retired truthful that she could wage the bill. He past went to enactment astatine his father's villa, wherever helium died 3 weeks later.

According to a timeline enactment unneurotic by the trio hired by Ms Lennon, a information defender recovered Aston floating face-down successful the shallow extremity of the excavation astir 5pm connected August 22.

Mr Looker performed CPR connected his lad arsenic helium was raced to hospital, but by the clip they got determination helium was declared dead.

Mr Looker would aboriginal explicate to Ms Lennon that helium cremated Aston 2 days aboriginal according to the teen's ain wishes. 

Just 3 months earlier Aston had told his begetter helium wanted to beryllium cremated wrong 2 days of his decease and that helium had a phobia of being enactment successful immoderate benignant of box, according to substance messages seen by Good Weekend.

There is nary proposition of immoderate wrongdoing connected the portion of Mr Looker. He has been based successful Bali since 2005 and runs a fig of surfboard businesses determination - helium and his lad shared a emotion of surfing. 

'I privation to pass others to punctual them of however small power we person successful a spot similar Bali erstwhile things spell wrong,' Ms Lennon said.

'We instrumentality a batch of things for granted successful Australia. The section constabulary didn’t adjacent cognize Aston had died until we told them. By then, he’d already been cremated.

'I tin ne'er spell backmost to Bali, not aft this.'