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 Re: Long jail term call dropped for model  [Re: veggie]
#4926374 - 11/12/05 03:46 PM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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That's funny, that woman is also hawt!
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 Re: Aussie lingerie model jailed in Bali [Re: veggie]
#4926401 - 11/12/05 03:55 PM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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all of this for just two little pills? sheesh
ditto on what shroomieofdoomie said, id roll with that chick anyday haha 
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Leslie guilty but free soon [Re: veggie]
#4949627 - 11/17/05 10:30 PM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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Leslie guilty but free soon
November 18, 2005 - smh.com.au
MICHELLE Leslie is vowing to tell all and clear her name after being found guilty yesterday of receiving ecstasy. The model was sentenced to three months' jail — the exact time served since police fumbled through her handbag outside a dance party in Bali and found two ecstasy tablets.
Her case finished as it began, Leslie almost gliding through the gathered media to a police van. Two Australian networks covered the verdict live and her lawyers are attempting to orchestrate a bidding war for interviews on her return.
"Here we go," chief judge Made Sudia announced. "Michelle Leslie is found guilty of receiving psychotropic drugs. As a user is sentenced to three months, minus time served."
Judge Sudia also fined Leslie 1000 rupiah (15 cents) in court costs. Her seized handbag will not be returned.
"I accept, your honour, the verdict," said a perfectly groomed, smiling Leslie, standing to shake the hands of the three judges. She should be released today.
The verdict brings to a close a case that owes more to Alice in Wonderland than legal protocol. While Leslie found herself amid the nightmare of Indonesia's prison system facing the prospect of 15 years behind bars over two pink pills, her case has been enveloped in a fantasy world of conflicting and nonsensical stories.
Leslie's story has changed several times. Her legal team came close to admitting the latest version is a concoction, saying she would "tell the truth" back in Australia. Being shepherded from the court, she said: "I am happy to be going home and telling everything and clearing my name."
Her Sydney lawyer Ross Hill said police had not conducted a "thorough, complete investigation". The "real facts" were very different and would be presented in due course, he said.
Leslie's lawyers have claimed she was innocent and framed, pointing their fingers towards unidentified companions with her on the night.
From the saga have emerged alleged death threats, sacked lawyers, bribery claims, a vanishing friend, and a claimed conversion to Islam.
The intense media interest came in the wake of the Schapelle Corby saga, another story of a beautiful bird in a grimy cage, played out against the apparent hypocrisy of an Indonesian justice system that would jail for just 30 months a cleric for authorising the 2002 Bali bombings.
Leslie's Bali holiday was a break from modelling in Singapore, a party trip with the Asian jet set; beautiful models surrounded the privileged offspring of the local elite. Surf, sun, dancing and dinners — but it came to a crushing halt on the night of August 19.
Two days earlier, Leslie told the court, she ran out of her Ritalin medication, taken for attention deficit disorder. A friend from Singapore, whom she named as Mia, had promised to find a replacement. At a dinner party on the 19th friends claim Mia placed some tablets, wrapped in tissue, in Leslie's handbag before the group went to an all-night outdoor dance party 30 minutes' drive from Kuta.
As the judges noted, the police who stopped and searched the car at the party's entrance did not record the details of the rest of the group.
Mia has disappeared and Leslie said she could not remember her full name, or the details of the others accompanying them. Media reports have claimed the sons of a senior judge and senior minister were with Leslie when the car was stopped.
As she was being searched, Leslie claimed Mia approached after talking to men travelling with them. "She said 'whatever you do don't say anything, don't tell on anyone and if anything happens we will fix it'."
Through her lawyers, Leslie has said she was "absolutely terrified" since her arrest. "A lot of people have tried to get me to say a lot of different things," she said. "I have had a lot of fear instilled in me."
Leslie is being freed on the basis of evidence she steadfastly denies. Leslie's version, the second version she told police, is she never took ecstasy, but had a reliance on the prescription drug Ritalin to calm anxiety attacks. A positive blood and urine test to ecstasy conducted by police "absolutely proved" Leslie to be a drug user, according to prosecutor Risman Tarihoran.
Accepting Leslie's claim that she did not know the tablets were ecstasy, Mr Tarihoran said he would no longer pursue an ecstasy possession charge carrying a potential 15-year penalty. Instead he opted for an alternative charge of receiving ecstasy as a drug user, with a maximum three-month term.
The judges agreed, but stated Leslie had behaved well throughout the trial, showing remorse and pleading for forgiveness from Indonesia.
Mr Hill has denied constant rumours that Leslie's freedom had been bought — her boyfriend, Scott Sutton, is heir to a car dealership fortune — and that he was negotiating a $600,000 TV deal.
"We've heard figures of 300 billion rupiah for the lawyers, $US402,000 for the judges," he said. "We've had everything you can possibly imagine, so the same thing I say to the $600,000 media deal, it's just a rubbish."
However, Mr Hill said he disagreed with comments from Justice Minister Chris Ellison that any money Leslie may receive from media appearances would be seized under proceeds of crime laws.
The real significance of the case, said Mr Hill, was that "the harshness of the drug regime here in Indonesia has now been tempered. No longer do you have to plead that you are some sort of dire straits addict to seek leniency from these courts."
The host of other Australians facing drugs charges in Bali may beg to differ. The Bali nine and Schapelle Corby remain trapped behind the walls and razor wire of Kerobokan jail as their respective journeys through Indonesia's justice system drag on.
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Re: Leslie guilty but free soon [Re: veggie]
#4952261 - 11/18/05 02:29 PM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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Time to pull out the crowbar of justice (h-bomb) and pop indonesia off the map.
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Leslie released from Bali jail [Re: veggie]
#4954419 - 11/19/05 12:21 AM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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Leslie released from Bali jail
November 19, 2005 - news.com.au
CONVICTED drug user, Australian model Michelle Leslie grinned broadly after being freed from an Indonesian prison today after serving three months for ecstasy possession.
The 24-year-old, who suddenly began wearing Muslim garb after her arrest and claimed she had converted to Islam 18 months ago, emerged from Kerobokan prison heavily made-up and dressed in skin-tight jeans, a tight tank-top, thongs and designer sunglasses.
She paused to smile for the wall of cameramen and photographers, but kept silent as two minders led her through the crush to a van to take her to the immigration office near Bali airport.
She was a free woman, but in order to leave Indonesia freely she had to negotiate with immigration not to be deported.
"We don't want her to be deported; it's a red stamp in her passport and it's not a good look," said Leslie family spokesman Sean Mulcahy.
After a wild media chase 15km across Bali, Leslie and her lawyers arrived at the immigration office to finalise the paperwork.
They would not reveal Leslie's planned destination, saying only that she had three tickets booked and paid for to Jakarta, Singapore and Australia.
The destination depended on how long it took to clear Indonesian bureaucracy, lawyers said.
By mid-afternoon, Leslie and her legal team were still inside the immigration office negotiating her release.
"Since this morning she has been waiting, waiting," lawyer Christo Imanuel Dugis said.
"It has been frustrating because of the administration procedure, but she now understands a little about how the Indonesian system works."
Leslie packed her bags last night and was ready for an early morning release from jail, but freedom was delayed because immigration officials refused to meet her lawyers earlier.
Meanwhile, Kerobokan's security chief Hannibal, who had the only key to the women's block, had slept in, frustrating the legal team which arrived in a four-car convoy at 4.45am (7.45am AEDT) to pick up Leslie.
Hannibal said he slept in because he had waited until almost 11pm yesterday (2am Saturday AEDT) for Leslie's legal team to bring the necessary paperwork to the jail, but they failed to show.
As Leslie waited to be released, prosecutors arrived at Kerobokan to return her fake Gucci handbag that contained the two ecstasy tablets the night she was arrested, on August 20.
Then at about 1pm (4pm AEDT) today, photographers, cameramen and journalists who had been waiting for her release since 4am (7am AEDT) formed a human wall between the prison door and the waiting immigration van just three metres away.
As her lawyer came out brandishing the prison release letter, the media pack aggressively surged forward, prompting prison officials to twice slam the door shut.
After officials and Leslie's minders had stern words with journalists and ordered the van moved to allow more room in front of the door, it was a case of third time lucky. The door was opened and Leslie was led out of Bali's notorious Kerobokan prison for the last time.
Her lawyers have said that while they were generally satisfied with the outcome of the trial, they believed she should have been found not guilty.
There have been allegations that police covered up the fact that Leslie was with the sons of powerful Indonesian families on the night of her arrest.
Leslie has vowed to tell the truth about her arrest when she returns to Australia.
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'Bribes were paid' for Leslie's freedom [Re: veggie]
#4963192 - 11/21/05 07:33 AM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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'Bribes were paid' for Leslie's freedom
November 22, 2005 - theage.com.au
MICHELLE Leslie has reconciled with the mystery woman she blamed for placing two ecstasy tablets in her handbag, sparking her court battle to avoid up to 15 years in an Indonesian prison.
After a two-hour discussion in Singapore, fellow model, Siti Namira — originally named as Mia — may speak out to help clear her friend's name, Leslie's spokesman Sean Mulcahy said last night.
The meeting came as sources in Bali claimed bribes were paid to secure reduced charges. Sources close to the investigation said bribes had been distributed to ensured Leslie received only a three-month sentence.
Several sons of influential Indonesians reportedly were with Leslie on the night of her arrest. Police sources named a Balinese man as the supplier of drugs to the group.
Leslie flew to Singapore on Saturday after her release and deportation from Indonesia. Mr Mulcahy said the 24-year-old model planned to tell her story after her return to Australia today.
Mr Mulcahy said Leslie had not used ecstasy "for some time" and suggested that positive blood and urine tests for the drug had been faked. She "was tested on the night of the arrest and that test was negative, six days later she was retested and that test appears as positive".
Allegations that bribes had been paid "are issues Michelle will deal with at an appropriate stage", he said.
Mr Mulcahy said death threats had been issued against Leslie if she spoke out, but he denied reports the threats were passed on by Ms Namira.
Mr Mulcahy said Leslie had received numerous offers for her story, including a substantial offer from one media organisation, which had publicly denounced the possibility that she could profit from her conviction for ecstasy possession.
No deal had been finalised but Leslie would speak, probably later this week. "Not necessarily for money, the priority of this matter is for Michelle to clear her name," he said.
Mr Mulcahy attacked suggestions by Muslim leaders that Leslie's modelling career might clash with the allegiance to Islam she claimed during her trial, and said criticism of her rapid return to Western dress on her release, was unjust.
"She is upset that it's suggested she is pretending to be a Muslim, it's inaccurate and offensive to the Muslim community and Michelle," he said.
The editor-in-chief of New Idea magazine, Robyn Foyster, yesterday denied that any offer had been made to Leslie, despite the magazine having talked to her exclusively while she was in jail. Once she was convicted, negotiations had stopped, Ms Foyster said.
Ms Foyster said she had enormous sympathy for Leslie who, if convicted on similar charges in Australia, would have received only a fine, but the legal issues about whether Leslie could profit from selling her story were not very clear because she had been convicted in another country. New Idea was waiting for a statement from the Director of Public Prosecutions before it decided whether to proceed with negotiations.
Federal Justice Minister Chris Ellison in a letter published in yesterday's Age said the question of whether any action would be taken in Leslie's case was entirely one for the DPP to decide.
The Nine Network's A Current Affair said it would not pay for Leslie's story. "For the record, A Current Affair, like everyone else, was approached to pay for her exclusive story," host Ray Martin said on air last night. "As much as we'd love to get some answers to all those questions, we weren't going to pay."
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Tearful Leslie will not tell full story [Re: veggie]
#4978487 - 11/24/05 10:44 PM (6 years, 6 months ago) |
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Too risky to tell story: Leslie
November 25, 2005 - news.com.au
A TEARFUL Michelle Leslie has broken down while speaking about her three months in a Bali jail at a press conference today but has refused to answer questions about her arrest.
Leslie said it was still too dangerous for her to tell the full story of her imprisonment in Bali.
"I'd always expected that if I got free I'd be able to tell the Australian public what really happened," a distressed looking Leslie said of her jailing in Indonesia for drug possession.
"But now that I'm back here I still don't believe it's safe for me to do so because there's still a number of other young Australians in Indonesian jails, and I simply won't take the risk of making it worse for them than it already is."
Leslie returned to Australia this week after spending three months in a Bali jail for drug possession.
Reading a statement through tears, Leslie also apologised for offending the Islamic community by wearing Muslim dress at her trial, and appealed for privacy to let her get on with her life.
She also said her parents had spent their life savings and mortgaged their house in Adelaide to get her out of prison.
Leslie hit out at Prime Minister John Howard, who had warned the model to keep mum over her story, saying she could jeopardise the cases of other Australians facing drug charges in Indonesia.
She said she had never intended to sell her story.
"What has really shocked me though is the amount of anger that has been levelled at me, especially from the Prime Minister," she said.
"I know there has been a lot of speculation about whether I was going to tell my story – let me tell you now, all I ever wanted to do was clear my name and also that my story is not for sale."
Leslie broke down only moments after appearing at the press conference at a Sydney hotel, which was delayed more than an hour.
She said she had been criticised for not wanting to talk to the press.
"To be honest I was really overwhelmed and I needed a few days to be with my friends and family before I felt strong enough to talk to everybody and to deal with all of this," she said.
She said she had spent the past three months with 13 women in a Balinese jail cell "which was infested with cockroaches and had no ventilation, no sunlight".
Her only relief was a daily shower with "a bucket of cold water in an open sewer", she said.
"I really believed I would spend the next 15 years of my life rotting in an Indonesian prison," she said, before apologising for breaking down.
"I can't begin to describe how frightened I was and how confusing it was to find myself in that situation."
Leslie said she understood she may have offended Muslims by wearing traditional dress while facing trial in Bali, but it was an "extreme situation".
"As for the hurtful allegations that I pretended to be a Muslim, let me say first of all it was never my intention to offend anyone in the Muslim community," she said.
"I am a Muslim and I do understand the significance of wearing the burqa, I should have thought more carefully about wearing it in that situation and I apologise for any offence I have caused, it was an extreme situation."
Leslie said her parents spent their life savings and mortgaged their house to get her out of jail.
"As you can imagine I feel terrible about this and I want to be able to work and repay them the money that I owe them," she said.
"I am, however, extremely fortunate, I'm surrounded by friends and family who love and respect me and I'm home.
"But please understand this has been extremely life-changing and a terrible experience and I hope that I will be granted the privacy and understanding to be able to recover and get my life back.
"And even while I'm doing that I know that there are other Australians in prison in South-East Asia in far worse situations than I was ever in and my heart goes out to them.
"I still think about all of the people there – you can't walk away from a situation like that and not be affected."
Leslie said she watched many people leave the jail while she was there and she always wished it was her.
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Re: Tearful Leslie will not tell full story [Re: veggie]
#4988967 - 11/28/05 06:56 AM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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Bali police chief angry at bribe reports
November 28, 2005 - smh.com.au
Bali's police chief has angrily denied Australian media reports that he was offered $US20,000 ($27,225) to influence the outcome of model Michelle Leslie's ecstasy drug case.
The judge who presided over her trial and the prosecutors also insisted her case was dealt with fairly.
In the first sign of a feared backlash by Indonesian authorities which could impact on other Australians facing Indonesian courts, they and other officials dismissed claims of a $600,000 campaign of payments and bribes to bring Leslie home.
"How would you feel?" Bali police spokesman Colonel Antonius Reniban said after speaking to General I Made Manggku Pastika about the allegations today.
Asked if Pastika was angered by the claims, attributed to anonymous sources, Reniban said: "Of course, he is human. It is not true."
The Herald said at the weekend more than $600,000 was channelled into the campaign to have Leslie freed from prison in Denpasar after a minimum three months, including $100,000 in bribes distributed by some of Leslie's lawyers.
As well as the offer rejected by Pastika, another $US20,000 was reportedly paid to the police laboratory in an unsuccessful attempt to change positive drug test results.
Reniban accused Australian media of behaving irresponsibly and said police had not been contacted about the allegations.
"We do not expect a public lie," he said, adding the forensic lab chief would appear at a news conference to rebut the allegations tomorrow.
"The reality is that General Pastika never met Leslie or engage in any negotiations.
"He never met anyone connected with Leslie and no one talked to him about it. It didn't happen."
Reniban accused Australian papers of "grabbing rumours and writing about them", without offering any proof.
Prime Minister John Howard has warned the Leslie camp not to tell their version of "the truth" behind Leslie's arrest for fear on antagonising Indonesian authorities and impacting on the trial hopes of other Australians facing the country's courts, including the Bali Nine.
Prosecutor Suhadi said he was "disappointed" by the newspaper allegations of bribery.
The trial's chief judge I Made Sudia said the three-month sentence meted out had been appropriate for the offence committed.
"If we had found even one tablet with evidence she had been a dealer she would have got the maximum sentence," he said.
"The sentence was fair. Our consideration was pure."
A spokesman for the Indonesian government's anti-corruption office in Jakarta said officials were not looking into Leslie's case, because there was no branch office in Bali.
But I Putu Wirata Dwikora, of the Bali's Anti-Corruption Watch group, said he suspected money had changed hands in Leslie's case.
"After I saw this case I think we saw the indications," he said.
"It makes us question how it could be so smooth.
"Her case shows that people who have money get better justice."
Reniban said he had launched an investigation with both Bali's drug squad and the police laboratory.
"They have assured me they have not received any money," he said.
"The urine test was positive, the evidence was positive, the case proceeded, so who took the money?"
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Leslie tells of false drug confession [Re: veggie]
#5711063 - 06/04/06 11:49 AM (5 years, 11 months ago) |
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Leslie tells of false drug confession
June 5, 2006 - The Age
SYDNEY model Michelle Leslie, jailed in Indonesia for three months on a drugs charge before she was freed by a court last November, has maintained she had been framed.
Leslie, 25, last night told the Nine Network's TV show 60Minutes she reluctantly signed a statement that she was a drug addict to secure a three-
month sentence rather than the maximum 15-year prison term.
She claimed a blood test that showed no drugs was superseded by a second, taken five days later, which tested positive for traces of MDMA (an ingredient in ecstasy) after the sample was deliberately contaminated.
"My lawyer and the police and the police doctor were sitting there and they mixed drugs into my blood," she said.
"The lawyer said to me: 'Michelle, you're in the system now. If you plead innocent, you'll sit here for ever'."
She was found with two ecstasy tablets in her handbag in Bali last August.
Leslie and her father, Albert Leslie, said close to $300,000 had been extorted from them, plus rent for the cell she occupied during detention.
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Re: Leslie tells of false drug confession [Re: veggie]
#5713974 - 06/05/06 04:13 AM (5 years, 11 months ago) |
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> plus rent for the cell she occupied during detention.
Talk about rubbing salt into the wound...
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Re: Leslie tells of false drug confession [Re: Seuss]
#5714560 - 06/05/06 10:28 AM (5 years, 11 months ago) |
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Wow, that just made me want to stay the fuck out of that shithole country.
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