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#5043223 - 12/10/05 07:31 AM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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Corby dismisses drug links claim
December 11, 2005 - theadvertiser.news.com.au
CONVICTED Bali drug smuggler Schapelle Corby yesterday stood by her courtroom testimony that she had never been involved with drugs.
Her comments, through sister Mercedes, came as a storm erupted over claims police had uncovered photographs of Corby with an Adelaide man recently arrested over a marijuana smuggling ring operating between South Australia and Queensland.
"Schapelle still stands by her comment in court that she has never been involved with drugs," Mercedes Corby said in Bali.
"We can't really comment because we don't have any information. We don't know the (arrested) man's name; we haven't seen the photo. We won't have more information until we can speak to the police involved with this case early next week."
Corby's Jakarta lawyer, Hotman Paris Hutapea, questioned whether the photo existed or was real.
And even if it was real, Mr Hutapea said it did not pose a problem for Corby's appeal, now before the Supreme Court in Jakarta.
"I don't see any problem, because you may have a picture with anybody in your life; you might be in a photograph with a prostitute, but that doesn't mean you are a prostitute," he said.
The photographs, which have not been released, were said to have been taken some time before Corby's arrest at Bali airport in October last year with 4.1kg of marijuana in her bodyboard bag. While debate intensified over whether the photographs would be admissible in an Indonesian court, prosecutor Ni Wayan Sinaryati, who now has carriage of the case, said: "If it is true (about the photographs), we will make co-ordination with the authorities to get them. That's good."
A senior judicial source in Australia said yesterday neither the Howard Government nor the Australian Federal Police possessed copies of the photographs.
And, even if they did, the Mutual Assistance Agreement between Australia and Indonesia would not cover any request from Indonesia for copies of the photographs, the source said.
The photographs are claimed to have been found during a police search of the alleged drug dealer's home in SA as part of the joint SA-Queensland police operation.
Police stopped a car near Burra in November and a search of the boot located marijuana. An SA man in his 40s was arrested for possessing marijuana and was bailed to appear in court at a later date.
Several residential and rural properties in SA and Queensland were later raided as a result of the November seizure.
Fifteen kilograms of hydroponically grown marijuana and almost $60,000 in cash were seized in the raids, as were photographs.
A 60-year-old Salisbury North man and a 53-year-old Yatala Vale man will face charges of possessing marijuana and taking part in the sale and supply of marijuana.
SA police would not comment on the matter yesterday and the Australian Crime Commission could not be contacted.
The claims about the photographs come as the 28-year-old prepares an appeal against her 15-year drug-smuggling sentence and conviction.
The Corby family fears the emergence of the photographs could derail her appeal hopes.
"We don't need this right now," brother Michael Corby said. "Maybe (the photographs were) taken in a nightclub or a party. She has nothing to do with this."
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#5043227 - 12/10/05 07:34 AM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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Corby's drug sentence may be increased
December 11, 2005 - seven.com.au
Bali prosecutors are confident judges considering Schapelle Corby's appeal will increase her sentence in light of photographs seized by Australian police showing her with an alleged drug smuggler.
As the 28-year-old Gold Coast woman maintained she was innocent, prosecutors on Saturday said they would seek access to the photographs.
They want to present them to Indonesia's highest court, the Supreme Court in Jakarta, which is considering her appeal against a 15-year sentence for drug smuggling.
Police found the photographs while searching the South Australian home of a man just charged with marijuana smuggling.
The raid was part of a joint SA-Queensland operation to bust an alleged smuggling ring operating between the states, a newspaper reported.
The photographs were taken before Corby's arrest on October 8 last year, when customs officers at Bali airport found 4.1kg of marijuana in her unlocked luggage.
"Schapelle stands by her comments made in court that she has never been involved in drugs," sister Mercedes Corby said.
She would not comment on whether the photos could potentially harm Corby's appeal hopes.
"We can't comment because we don't have the man's name, we haven't seen the photos and we're unable to get in contact with the head of that investigation (in SA) until next week," Mercedes said.
Corby is appealing against the 15-year sentence handed down by Bali's High Court earlier this year after it cut her original 20-year jail term on appeal.
Her prosecutors, who are demanding a life sentence, were bolstered by news of the photographs.
"If we can get copies of the photos, we will send them to the Supreme Court," prosecutor Ni Wayan Sinaryati told AAP.
"It would strengthen our case because her punishment has been decreased, and I hope these photos will convince the judges she is guilty."
Corby's former prosecutor Ida Bagus Nyoman Wiswantanu, who oversaw her case at the district and high court levels, said while it was too late to submit the photographs as new evidence, they could still be sent to the judges with an additional appeal letter.
He believed they would have a powerful impact on the court's decision.
"It could be additional proof of her guilt of being part of a syndicate," he said.
"I hope that with this, Australians can accept the court's decision more openly."
Corby's lawyers dismissed the photographs as inadmissible and said they remained confident the Supreme Court would not raise her sentence.
"I'm not worried, I'm still confident and I believe the sentence will not be more than the current sentence, even less," head lawyer Hotman Paris Hutapea said from his Jakarta office.
"Legally, the photos are not admissible as evidence, but they may affect the personal thinking of the judges."
He said the last chance to submit evidence was at the High Court.
The Supreme Court can only consider application of the law when making its decision.
He said the photographs were weak evidence.
"You could have your photo taken with prostitutes, drug dealers, you never know, until years later someone brings those photos out. It doesn't make you guilty of a crime," he said.
Corby has consistently maintained the drugs were not hers and were planted in her baggage by an Australian drug gang using her as an unwitting interstate drug courier.
The Supreme Court's decision is not expected for another three to six months, Hutapea said.
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#5054315 - 12/12/05 06:40 PM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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AFP 'had no role in Corby photos'
December 13, 2005 - smh.com.au
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) had no role in the release of photographs of convicted drug trafficker Schapelle Corby and a man charged with marijuana dealing, chief Mick Keelty says.
Bali prosecutors are expected to seek access to the photographs of Corby ahead of an upcoming appeal against her current 15-year jail term.
The photographs, the existence of which were revealed by Melbourne's Herald-Sun newspaper on Saturday, were thought to have been taken before Corby was arrested on October 8 last year, when customs officers at Bali's airport found 4.1 kilograms of marijuana in her unlocked luggage.
However, Corby's mother, Rosleigh Rose, said they were taken after Corby's arrest, while her daughter was in jail.
Ms Rose says her partner took photos of her daughter with a suspected drug dealer when the man visited Corby in her Bali jail.
Ms Rose says she also appeared in the photos, which were taken after two strangers befriended her and her partner Greg at a Bali restaurant.
She insists her daughter did not know the two men - the suspected dealer, and another man charged with marijuana dealing.
Ms Rose said the men, named Mal and Don, told her they felt for her daughter, and asked if they could visit her at Kerobokan Prison.
"Mal said he had a nine-year-old granddaughter who felt for Schapelle and they asked if they could go to the prison to meet her when we next visited her and we said it would be OK," Ms Rose told the Adelaide Advertiser.
"They wanted a photograph with Schapelle and they were going to get a disposable camera.
"But they didn't in the end, so Greg took the photos on his digital camera and then we got prints for them.
"And Schapelle wrote a card for Mal's granddaughter. This was the only time Schapelle saw these men."
Police reportedly found the photographs of Corby and the alleged dealer while searching his South Australian home as part of a joint South Australian-Queensland operation to bust an alleged marijuana-smuggling ring operating between the states.
Prosecutors in Denpasar are likely to request police hand over the photographs to cast doubt on Corby's claim that she had no contact with drugs or drug dealers.
Mr Keelty said the matter was in the hands of South Australian and Queensland police, and federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock.
Mr Keelty said the AFP had "no role whatsoever" in the seizure of the photographs.
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#5070675 - 12/16/05 08:27 AM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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Corby pictures taken inside jail
December 17, 2005 - news.com.au
THE alleged drug dealer photographed with Schapelle Corby sat through some of her trial and visited her in jail.
Corby's mother, Rosleigh Rose, claims neither she nor her daughter knew the man.
Ms Rose said she met the alleged drug dealer and another man in a Bali restaurant and later took them to visit Corby in jail.
The men were photographed with Corby inside Kerobokan jail.
Ms Rose said the men also sat in the court during some of Corby's trial.
The Herald Sun revealed a week ago that police in South Australia had seized photos of Corby with a man who was recently charged with marijuana smuggling.
The alleged drug dealer is pictured alone with Corby in some photographs.
Police initially thought they were taken before Corby was charged in October last year with importing 4.1kg of marijuana into Bali.
SA police commissioner Mal Hyde told Ms Rose in a fax this week the seized photos "do not appear to have been taken in a prison setting".
But the second man taken to the jail by Ms Rose, who gave his name as Dave, contacted The Advertiser in Adelaide on Thursday and confirmed Ms Rose's statements the photos were taken inside the jail.
He provided Ms Rose with copies of the photos, which she intends to take to Bali to prove to authorities they were taken in the prison after Corby's arrest.
Bali prosecutors also want copies to use in their appeal against the decision to reduce Corby's 20-year sentence by five years.
Dave has said he met "Mal" - the SA man arrested for his role in an alleged cannabis operation - on the plane as both travelled to Bali.
He said they met up in Bali, met Ms Rose and visited Corby together.
Ms Rose said her partner Greg Martin took the photos.
SA police seized a set of the photographs, which were handed to Australian Federal Police on Thursday.
The other set was kept by Dave, who is not involved in the police investigation.
Ms Rose said: "I just need to get these pictures to Jakarta, to the judges, for Schapelle's appeal to prove they were taken in Kerobokan and that Schapelle did not know this person before."
Ms Rose said Dave was willing to go to Bali to support Corby's claims she never knew the men.
Ms Rose, who plans to go to Jakarta on Monday, yesterday slammed police for not helping and for suggesting the pictures were not "in a prison setting".
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#5093491 - 12/22/05 10:26 AM (6 years, 5 months ago) |
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US rock star a Corby supporter
December 22, 2005 - theaustralian.news.com
CONVICTED Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has found an ally in American hard rocker and political activist Henry Rollins.
 The pair have never met but on a trip to Australia this year, Rollins said he was captivated by the Corby trial in Bali.
So much so, he finds himself looking her up on the internet on a regular basis from the US or wherever he is touring.
"Guilty or innocent, she (Corby) should get at least some due process and she didn't," said Rollins on the phone from the US.
"I google her all the time just to see if there is anything new written about her."
Earlier this year, Corby was sentenced to 20 years in Bali's Kerobokan jail after customs officers at Bali airport found 4.1kg of marijuana in her unlocked luggage.
The conviction was later reduced to 15 years and Corby is currently appealing to have the ruling quashed altogether.
"I just don't think anyone would be crass enough to shove 12 pounds of dope into a boogy board bag and try and traipse into Bali with it," said Rollins.
"It is just a little too obvious."
But Rollins said he didn't know how he could help the Australian.
"I don't know who I can talk to effect any change," he said.
"I don't think King Do Do Bang Bang (Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono) will take my call."
Rollins has toured Australia more than 25 times since the early 1980s, including as the frontman of hardcore punk outfit Black Flag.
He has more recently established himself as a singer in his own band – The Rollins Band.
In January, he will be one of the headline artists performing at the 2006 Big Day Out (BDO) music festival.
Rollins was a little apprehensive about signing up for the gig because he was only in Australia in May.
"I was a little apprehensive when they approached me for this Big Day Out thing," he said.
"If you come back to a place too often, the perception is not right."
The BDO will kick off in Auckland on January 20 before heading to the Gold Coast on January 22 and then Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.
In his 45 minute stand-up show for BDO, Rollins will talk about issues he feels strongly about – from war to politics to his famous friends and life in Hollywood.
"I will pick either one big story or hit hard on a number of little points," he said.
When not performing his stand-up shows and filming his own TV film review program, Rollins has been working on a new album with his band.
"We are creeping up on new songs," he said.
"I don't feel finished with music so I would like to do some more stuff."
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: veggie]
#5173378 - 01/12/06 05:19 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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Man in Corby photos comes forward
January 13, 2006 - news.com.au
CONVICTED drug smuggler Schapelle Corby appears to have been cleared of any link to an Adelaide man facing drug charges with whom she has been photographed.
The man in the photographs, taken at Bail's Kerobokan prison where Corby is serving a 15-year sentence for trying to smuggle cannabis into the Indonesian resort island, says he visited her twice last year, News Ltd papers reported today.
Malcolm McCauley said the visits were as a tourist only.
"A mate and I were in Bali and we thought we'd go and have a look-see in court," Mr McCauley said.
Mr McCauley first met Corby in May last year after her mother Rosleigh Rose introduced them.
Mr McCauley's story matches that of Ms Rose who said she took the men to see her daughter in prison after meeting them earlier.
Bali prosecutors have shown interest in seeking access to the photographs ahead of Corby's appeal against the jail term.
The photographs were originally thought to have been taken before the 28-year-old Queensland woman was arrested on October 8 2004 when customs officers at Bali's airport found 4.1kg of marijuana in her unlocked luggage.
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#5196879 - 01/18/06 08:44 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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Lawyer: Schapelle appeal now hopeless
January 19, 2006 - smh.com.au
Schapelle Corby's Indonesian lawyer says the arrest of her half-brother on drug and other charges in Queensland has "ruined" his attempts to free her from a Bali prison.
"Today I am really frustrated," Hotman Paris Hutapea told AAP.
"This has ruined my case."
Hotman said he feared the development involving Corby's half-brother would scupper his attempts to have her drug smuggling conviction quashed.
Corby's sentence was last year reduced on appeal from 20 to 15 years.
Hotman said he did not know whether Corby, who is serving time in Bali's Kerobokan Prison, knew about the arrest of her half-brother James Kisina.
He said he would remain on the case, despite the latest setback.
Corby was arrested on October 8, 2004 when Indonesian customs officers found 4.1kg of marijuana in her bodyboard bag after she stepped off a flight from Australia, accompanied by Kisina.
The primary defence offered during Corby's Bali trial was that baggage handlers had put the drugs in her bag as part of an organised smuggling ring working through Australian airports.
Her defence team said something had obviously gone wrong, and the baggage handlers had not retrieved the drug haul and it ended up going to Bali with Corby, who has steadfastly maintained her innocence.
Hotman is currently pursuing a further appeal in the Indonesian Supreme Court to have the conviction quashed and Corby freed.
A pessimistic Hotman said he feared his bid would fail in the wake of Kisina's appearance on eight charges in the Beenleigh Magistrates Court, south of Brisbane.
The charges he faces include deprivation of liberty and assault occasioning bodily harm, producing a dangerous drug, possession of a dangerous drug, and possession of items used in the commission of a crime and entering a dwelling.
He was remanded in custody to face the same court again in early March.
Corby's sister, Mercedes, who lives in Bali was not immediately available for comment.
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: veggie]
#5197927 - 01/19/06 04:33 AM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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Court reinstates Corby jail term
January 19, 2006 - BBC
An Indonesian court has reinstated an Australian woman's 20-year jail sentence for drug trafficking.
Schapelle Corby's term had been cut by five years to 15 years on appeal in October, but Indonesia's Supreme Court has now overturned that move.
Corby, a beauty therapist from the Gold Coast, was found carrying 4.1kg (9 lb) of marijuana in her bag in 2004.
She claimed the drugs were planted and her case has won widespread sympathy in Australia.
The 20-year sentence was reinstated after an appeal by prosecutors. It was unclear on what basis this was done.
Corby can now either request a judicial review, but would need to point to new evidence or technical errors in her case, or she could ask the Indonesian president to pardon her, but that would involve an admission of guilt, according to the Australian newspaper The Age.
Corby's Indonesian lawyer, Hotman Paris Hutapea, has sent a message to the Australian Associated Press threatening to resign from her case.
He said the arrest of her half-brother James Sioeli Kisina on drugs-related charges in Queensland had "ruined" his attempt to free her.
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#5212397 - 01/22/06 09:40 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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Corby brother's role to be tested in court
January 23, 2006 - ninemsn.com.au
Police allegations that Schapelle Corby's half-brother was involved in exporting the cannabis that put her in jail could be tested in court within weeks, according to a report.
The Australian newspaper reports lawyers for James Sioeli Kisina, 18, said they were considering a Supreme Court appeal after the allegations were used by Queensland police to successfully oppose their client's bail.
A sworn affidavit by arresting officer Detective Sergeant Dean Godfrey said: "He (Mr Kisina) is suspected of some involvement in the exportation of cannabis for which his sister has received a 20-year imprisonment sentence."
The affidavit also alleged Mr Kisina, who was arrested after a Brisbane home invasion last Tuesday, had a "propensity to commit offences" and that he suffered from a "lack of parental guidance".
Mr Kisina was 16 and with his sister when she was caught at Bali's Ngurah Rai airport in October 2004 carrying 4.1kg of cannabis in a bodyboard bag.
Mr Kisina carried the bag to the Customs desk, but when asked by officials if it was his, Corby interrupted and claimed ownership.
After two days of interrogation, Balinese police released Mr Kisina after finding no proof of involvement in the crime.
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: veggie]
#5214960 - 01/23/06 05:30 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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Mr Kisina was 16 and with his sister when she was caught at Bali's Ngurah Rai airport in October 2004 carrying 4.1kg of cannabis in a bodyboard bag.
Mr Kisina carried the bag to the Customs desk, but when asked by officials if it was his, Corby interrupted and claimed ownership.
After two days of interrogation, Balinese police released Mr Kisina after finding no proof of involvement in the crime.
Man, if he put that weed in the bag and has let his sister take the rap for it all of this time, he needs to be beaten bloody. That's foul!!!  
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#5222635 - 01/25/06 04:43 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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It's you or a Ferrari: lawyer dumps Corby for the high life
January 26, 2006 - smh.com.au
SCHAPELLE CORBY'S flamboyant Jakarta lawyer has quit her case just days after Indonesia's highest court threw out her appeal against her drug-smuggling conviction.
Hotman Paris Hutapea said he had been volunteering his time to defend Corby but now wanted to devote his energy to cases that would make money - lots of it.
"I want to buy the new model Ferrari, so I have to make more money now," said the self-proclaimed playboy, who is renowned for his diamond jewellery and the pistols he wears under his designer suits. "I'm getting bored of all my old cars."
Hutapea joined Corby's legal team on a no-fee basis late last year and secured a five-year cut to her sentence on appeal.
But his flamboyant style failed to impress the Supreme Court in Jakarta, which last week reinstated her original 20-year sentence to the delight of prosecutors.
Hutapea said he sent a letter yesterday to Corby and her Bali lawyer, Erwin Siregar, informing them of his resignation.
"My power of attorney was only to the level of the Supreme Court appeal," he said. "I wish Corby every success."
He would not comment on whether his resignation was related to news that Corby's half-brother, James Kisina, has been arrested in Australia on drug and assault charges.
Queensland police allege Kisina may have been involved in the attempted smuggling of cannabis into Bali for which Corby is serving time in the island's Kerobokan prison.
Kisina's lawyer has said he would vigorously defend the smuggling allegations.
As for Hutapea, he will now get back to enjoying his glitzy lifestyle. "I have everything that every man dreams of," he said. "I work from 6am to 6pm. Then I go to the best hotels and I find the best bottle of wine, of course, with a beautiful movie star. That's a pretty good life, isn't it?"
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#5223712 - 01/25/06 08:13 PM (6 years, 4 months ago) |
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Hotman Paris Hutapea is a piece of shit. He just did this for the publicity.
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#5245928 - 01/31/06 08:09 AM (6 years, 3 months ago) |
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Corby mother, police conflict
January 31, 2006 - news.com.au
SCHAPELLE Corby's mother said the Corby family wanted to have the marijuana found in her daughter's bodyboard bag in Bali forensically tested, but that Indonesian police wouldn't allow it.
Rosleigh Rose's comments conflict with remarks made today by Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty, who said Corby's lawyers rejected the AFP's offer to test the drugs upon learning that the results could be passed to Indonesian Police.
Corby, now 28, was arrested on October 8, 2004, after customs officers at Denpasar airport found 4.1kg of marijuana in her bodyboard bag.
The former Gold Coast student beautician, who is serving 20 years' jail for drug smuggling, has maintained her innocence, saying someone else planted the drugs in her unlocked bag.
The Australian Federal Police had offered to DNA test the marijuana in a bid to prove where it came from and to search for fingerprints on the inside of the bodyboard bag, ABC TV has said.
But Mr Keelty said today Corby's lawyers rejected the offer after it was explained that any results would be given to Indonesian authorities.
"I think the reality was if it was tested, and the tests didn't come out with what the defence counsel expected, then it may assist the prosecution and not the defence," AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty said today.
However, Ms Rose said her daughter's legal team wanted to go ahead with the testing but that the Indonesian police wouldn't allow it.
She said her daughter signed the papers authorising the testing in November, 2004, the month after she was arrested.
"We were pushing to get it done but they (the Indonesian Police) stopped us because the marijuana came from Indonesia," Ms Rose told the Ten Network.
Ms Rose also dismissed a report on the ABC TV's 7.30 Report last night which associated Corby's father Michael Corby with an alleged drug-dealing neighbour named only as "Tony".
"Look at all my neighbours here," Ms Rose said in Brisbane. "If they are growing drugs, does it mean that I am?"
The 7.30 Report said Mr Corby lived next door to the man on a property in central Queensland which was raided in September, 2004, allegedly uncovering a well-established hydroponic cannabis-growing operation.
As well as the marijuana plants, police allegedly found 5kg of high-quality marijuana in vacuum-sealed plastic bags, along with thousands of dollars in cash hidden throughout the property.
The raid took place a month before Schapelle Corby left Brisbane Airport for Bali.
Earlier this month, an Indonesian court reinstated Corby's sentence for drug smuggling to 20 years after it was reduced to 15 years on appeal.
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Jail transfer hope for Schapelle Corby, 'Bali nine'
February 28, 2006 - news.com.au
FOREIGN Affairs Minister Alexander Downer hopes a prisoner transfer scheme with Indonesia can be arranged "reasonably quickly", but says that during a meeting yesterday with his Indonesian counterpart, he emphasised Australia supported Indonesia's tough stance on drugs.
Mr Downer, in Jakarta to address a terrorism conference, also had a breakfast meeting with the Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda, where the subject of the Bali Nine was discussed.
Mr Downer told his counterpart that once all appeals for the two Bali Nine members on death row were concluded, Australia would make appeals for clemency should the death penalties for Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran stand.
However, he said Australia's clemency appeals would not extend to the seven members who recently received life sentences for their attempt to export 8.2kg of heroin to Bali from Australia.
All members of the nine have lodged appeals with the Denpasar High Court.
The issue of a prisoner transfer scheme, to allow the seven Bali Nine members sentenced to life in jail, along with Schapelle Corby, to serve their times in Australian jails also had been discussed. The French Government has been attempting for several years to broker a similar deal with Indonesia. Mr Downer said he hoped Australia's deal could be negotiated in parallel or ahead of the French agreement.
"I think they are sympathetic to that idea and I hope that we can process this reasonably quickly," he said after the meeting.
The two ministers also discussed beginning joint naval patrols of the waters between Australia and Indonesia in a bid to stamp out illegal fishing.
"If both of us can find the resources for these joint naval patrols, it would be a very substantial disincentive for illegal fishing and other illegal activities," he said.
In the past year, 252 Indonesian vessels have been apprehended for illegal fishing in northern waters in what is an increasing problem for maintaining the integrity of the waters.
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#5366940 - 03/05/06 09:17 AM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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wow, death penalty.....i hope they dont air it on tv.
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#5410751 - 03/16/06 10:39 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Prosecutors burn Corby evidence
March 17, 2006 - abc.net.au
Bali prosecutors have burnt all of the physical evidence used to convict Australian woman Schapelle Corby on drug trafficking charges, despite a planned appeal.
Corby is serving a 20-year sentence for importing marijuana.
The prosecutors have burnt the 4.2 kilograms of marijuana, the boogie board bag it was found in, the boogie board itself and Corby's flippers.
The prosecutors' office refused to save even a small part of the marijuana for DNA testing, should this become part of any future appeal.
Corby's lawyer, Erwin Siregar, says he is outraged.
"This is a big problem for me now because they destroy the evidence," he said.
But he says the extraordinary appeal will go ahead.
"I can make it in six months, I can make it in one year," Mr Siregar said.
"As soon as I go about there, I will make it, the extraordinary appeal."
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: veggie]
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: Stonerguy]
#5413338 - 03/17/06 02:34 PM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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I hate Earth.
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Re: Schapelle Corby [Re: veggie]
#5429734 - 03/22/06 11:18 AM (6 years, 2 months ago) |
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Corby jail a tourist attraction
March 19, 2006 - news.com.au
AUSTRALIAN tourists are flocking to the jail where convicted drug smugglers Schapelle Corby and the Bali Nine are held.
Friends and authorities are outraged that Kerobokan jail has become a "sick" attraction.
"It's cruel; it's nasty," Corby supporters' group spokeswoman Rachelle Hamilton said.
"Schapelle has suffered enough. She's not a freak show."
Bali-based Australian pastor Ed Trotter, who visits, and provides spiritual counselling to, Australian inmates, has watched the rising number of jail tourists with alarm.
"If they're coming to visit for the right reasons, it's fine, but some of it is celebrity voyeurism," Mr Trotter said.
Queensland Prisoners Legal Service co-ordinator Susan Bothmann said the tourists were a potential threat to the mental health of Corby, who was being treated as if she was "a monkey in a zoo".
"One of the significant things about being in jail is that your autonomy is removed from you," Ms Bothmann said.
"If you are an object of ridicule, it can have a serious emotional impact on you."
With its armed guards and razor wire, the jail is an unlikely tourist destination.
But with 10 Australians locked up inside - two of them on death row - it has gained a reputation as a macabre holiday attraction.
Almost daily, guards say, Australian tourists arrive at the jail with their cameras.
During her early days in jail, Corby happily accepted tourist visitors, but stopped the practice last year as her verdict drew close.
Her family said the convicted marijuana smuggler distrusted some people's motives and no longer accepted unsolicited visits from people she did not know.
Members of the heroin-smuggling Bali Nine, however, have been known to see tourists.
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Fresh doubt about Corbys' guilt [Re: veggie]
#5488484 - 04/06/06 11:19 PM (6 years, 1 month ago) |
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Bag security sabotage
April 6, 2006 - dailytelegraph.news.com.au
SECURITY cameras in the baggage handling area of Sydney airport have been repeatedly tampered with, raising fresh questions about a string of drug cases and the threat of terrorism.
Sydney Labor MP John Murphy ? who revealed the scandal to The Daily Telegraph ? claimed the security breach cast fresh doubt on the guilt of convicted drug trafficker Schapelle Corby.
It could also have potential implications for other drug matters in recent years, including Operation Mocha in which a syndicate allegedly ran $30 million in cocaine through the airport with the help of corrupt baggage handlers.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal two cameras inside the baggage handling unit were sabotaged on three occasions between October 2004 and May 2005.
In answers to questions on notice submitted in Parliament by Mr Murphy, Customs Minister Chris Ellison confirmed the cameras had been deliberately disabled.
"The customs maintenance provider of its CCTV cameras at Sydney International Airport has been required to adjust two of customs' CCTV cameras in the baggage make-up area of the airport on three occasions between October 2004 and May 2005," Senator Ellison said.
"These adjustments were required to correct the field of view following reports from customs' control room operators that cameras were pointing in the wrong direction."
The cameras are used to monitor the behaviour of baggage handlers as they sift through luggage behind the airport's check
The new revelations come after an internal customs report in September 2004 that revealed large-scale corruption among baggage handlers and other airport staff.
"Intelligence from other law enforcement agencies suggests some Asian-recruited Qantas crew may be involved in narcotics," the report found.
The report also revealed baggage handlers would divert bags containing drugs from incoming international flights to domestic carousels so they would not be checked.
In a recent case involving corrupt airport workers, former Qantas baggage handler Raymond Camilleri was this week sentenced to one year of home detention for tipping off a cocaine dealer that police had seized his luggage.
Camilleri tipped off the dealer on February 17, 2005, once again at the same time the security cameras were found to have been disabled.
Mr Murphy said the security breach was most relevant to the Corby case and urged her lawyers to act in the light of the new developments.
"I am sure Schapelle Corby and her legal team would like to know when the first breach occurred and how long it took to be brought to the attention of the Customs Minister," Mr Murphy said yesterday.
Mr Murphy said apart from the implications for high-profile drug matters, the scam exposed huge flaws in the country's defence against terrorism.
"Three years after September 11, how could this have happened at Sydney airport and why have so many innocent passengers been put at grave risk?" he said.
"Anyone working in this area could have put heroin in a passenger's luggage at either the domestic or international airport at Sydney and that person would never know."
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