Bar staff blamed for lethal cocktails Liam Davies was partying with friends when he apparently drank a vodka-lime mix which was contaminated with methanol. Two Indonesian bartenders are the prime suspects in the death of a young Perth man, Liam Davies, who drank methanol-laced vodka on a holiday island on New Year's Eve. The owner of the pub, Rudy's, on Gili Trawangan island near Lombok, has also been questioned, but only the frontline bar staff are suspects according to Indonesian national police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar. But we will see what develops. Perhaps there will be (more) people who should be responsible for what happened," Mr Boy said. If convicted, they face up to 20 years in jail for selling a potentially deadly substance, Mr Boy said. Davies, a 19-year-old roof carpenter from Marmion, WA, was partying with friends on December 31 last year when he apparently drank a vodka-lime mix which was contaminated with methanol. He was originally taken to hospital in Lombok before being airlifted to Australia on January 3. He died on January 5. Another drinker at the bar that night, a Canadian national, also got sick, but she was treated in Malaysia and recovered. The Indonesian police said they had begun their investigation as the result of a request by the Australian Federal Police a few days after the death. But the bar kept operating, and, according to tests carried out by media organisations, was still serving methanol-laced drinks days and weeks after Liam's death with no action by authorities. He said, however, that, "it looks like (mixing drinks with other substances) was normal practice at the pub." The bar was still open but the local government was "examining its licence," he said. Mr Boy said the police had also tested drinks from Rudy's Bar, but would not name the substances found. Local police from the Lombok region will travel to Perth next week, accompanied by the Australian Federal Police, to question Mr Davies' family and the doctors who treated him. We want to know what substance was in his digestive system and what he took that night. We will match the findings (in Australia) and the ones we got from Gili Trawangan when we confiscated some alcoholic drinks," Mr Boy said. With Karuni Rompies