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 Corby faces greatest fear [Re: veggie]
#6415164 - 01/01/07 08:03 AM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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Fearful Corby faces being moved to prison in east Java
January 2, 2006 - theage.com.au
WHAT Schapelle Corby has described as her "living hell" in an Indonesian prison is about to get worse.
Authorities are preparing to transfer the 29-year-old Brisbane woman from Bali's Kerobokan jail to a prison in the east Java city of Malang, hundreds of kilometres from Bali and further away from family and friends.
Prison officials have told The Age that Corby could be transferred to Malang at any time.
At present, family members and friends visit her regularly, bringing food and other essentials.
Corby's sister Mercedes lives in Bali with her Indonesian husband and two children.
"I live in fear that any day I could be plucked from my cell in the dead of night and taken to another prison in a remote part of Indonesia," Corby wrote in her book, My Story, which was released late last year.
She said guards relished threatening her with being moved, part of their "ongoing campaign of mental abuse".
Life in Kerobokan is harsh; the prison provides inedible food and few other essentials. But prisoners with access to money, such as Corby, can receive whatever supplies they want, even access to mobile phones.
Corby described seeing horrific violence and acts of degradation in Kerobokan. She wrote that guards had been regularly transferring prisoners in the dead of night, without alerting family or consulates.
Corby said her sister "might just come in one day to find her little sister gone. It terrifies us both. It's hard to fathom, but I actually fear being taken away from Kerobokan prison."
Papers authorising the transfer were sent weeks ago from authorities in Jakarta to Kerobokan's warden, Ilham Djaya, who said the move must go ahead because of overcrowding.
Mr Djaya said Kerobokan had room for only 340 prisoners but housed almost 900.
Corby's Indonesian lawyer, Erwin Siregar, has written a letter to prison officials asking that if Corby is transferred, it be to another Bali prison, where she would be near family and the Australian consulate. Mr Siregar also said Corby should not be transferred while waiting to hear the outcome of a judicial review of her conviction for possessing 4.1 kilograms of marijuana found in her bodyboard bag at Bali airport in October 2004.
The outcome of the review before Indonesia's highest court is expected to be known soon. He has not received a reply to his letter.
Jail officials have also speculated that Renae Lawrence, one of the Bali nine drug mules, may soon be transferred from Kerobokan. Corby and Lawrence are both serving 20-year sentences.
Lawrence became hysterical several months ago when she thought she was to be included in a group of about nine prisoners, including two foreigners, who were transferred from Kerobokan without prior notice early one morning.
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Re: Corby faces greatest fear [Re: veggie]
#6424122 - 01/04/07 09:23 AM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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Corby should be 'thankful' for transfer
January 4, 2007 - news.com.au
CONVICTED drug smuggler Schapelle Corby should be thankful she is being transferred to a prison in east Java, Bali prison governor Ilham Djaya said today.
The governor of Kerobokan Prison - the man who requested Corby's transfer - said the inmate should be thankful she is going to a "better prison''.
Corby described the prison she is currently in as a "disgusting slum'' in her recent autobiography.
Mr Djaya said Corby had made some efforts to stop the transfer, and admitted that some people had pleaded with him to cancel the move.
"If she likes it here so much, why would she write that the toilet in the prison is gruesome, that the warden sexually harassed the inmates?'' Mr Djaya said.
Corby also complained of being unable to exercise on the prison's tennis court, he said.
"If she cannot do some sports here, in there (Sukun prison) she can run around 20 laps if she likes," Mr Djaya said.
He said the transfer would be a positive move.
"We are thinking positive for her, trying to provide a better system that would create a better person,'' Mr Djaya said.
In her book My Story launched in November, Corby describes the prison "Hotel Kerobokan'', as a "dark hell hole'' with no running water or power, with easy access for rats and snakes.
"We were living in a disgusting slum, in the most vile and unhygienic conditions imaginable,'' Corby wrote.
"It was not fit for human beings, it was not fit for a dog.
"It made me sick, I threw up often, had non-stop diarrhoea and persistent ear infections.''
Mr Djaya, who has Corby's book on a shelf in his office, admitted to reading it but would not say what he thought of it.
Corby's soon-to-be new home Sukun Prison in Malang, East Java, is the closest women's prison to Kerobokan, but is still hundreds of kilometres away.
While she now lives in a cell with eight to 10 inmates, her new cell will be more spacious with only two or three inmates, Mr Djaya said.
The former student beautician has a sister, Mercedes, who lives in Bali and provides her with food and other amenities.
Australian tourists also visit, offering support, food and other trinkets.
Prison department officials said Corby could be transferred anytime. However, authorities are awaiting funding from Jakarta.
The transfer was requested by the prison governor to the directorate general of prisons in Jakarta.
Transfer requests are generally made because the prison is overcrowded or for security reasons.
Kerobokan Prison currently has 838 prisoners, even though its capacity is for only 323 inmates.
Corby is one of 238 prisoners to be moved from the facility.
Indonesian prisoners cannot reject their transfer unless they have solid reasons to halt it, Mr Djaya said.
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Corby cash loophole [Re: veggie]
#6476744 - 01/19/07 01:16 PM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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Corby cash loophole
January 19, 2007 - news.com.au
A PUBLISHING loophole could allow Schapelle Corby to defy the Federal Government and access proceeds from her new autobiography.
The Government is determined to stop the convicted drug smuggler profiting from her crime by cashing in on the success of her best-selling My Story, released just before Christmas.
Justice Minister Chris Ellison said any profit the former Gold Coast beauty therapist made from the book could be confiscated by the Commonwealth under the Proceeds of Crime Act. He has asked the Director of Public Prosecutions to investigate.
But sources said a decision to give Corby's elder sister Mercedes joint copyright of the book with co-author Kathryn Bonella could allow the Corby family to circumvent the legislation and pocket the profits.
Mercedes Corby lives in Bali, where Schapelle is serving a 20-year jail sentence for drug smuggling, and has taken much of the responsibility for her sister's legal battle and ongoing care in prison.
Tom Gilliatt, of Pan Macmillan which published My Story, has said Corby wants to use money from the book sales to fund her continuing legal battle in Indonesia, where she was caught trying to smuggle 4.1kg of cannabis in a bodyboard bag in October 2004.
Nr Gilliatt yesterday refused to comment on the financial arrangements for the book.
"(The) proceeds of crime (aspect) is a decision for whatever judicial body is looking into the matter," he said.
Mr Gilliatt said the book had been on the best-seller list "since the day it was published" and had sold more than 75,000 copies, meaning a potentially hefty windfall for Corby.
"It's still at No. 5 on the best-seller list," Mr Gilliatt said.
The Corby family could not be contacted for comment yesterday.
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Re: Corby cash loophole [Re: veggie]
#6479386 - 01/20/07 08:33 AM (5 years, 4 months ago) |
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Holy crap, Amazon wants almost $50 for My Story
I was gonna buy a copy, but I'm a tad short right now, and besides, screw $50, mabey I'll check half-priced books, get it for $25 if they got it, tobad half priced would get my profits then, lmao
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#6573761 - 02/16/07 04:58 AM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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New drug lie to bury Corby
February 14, 2007 - news.com.au
THE sister of convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has angrily denied a former friend's claims she tried to entice her to Bali to smuggle drugs, describing the allegation as "completely outrageous".
Mercedes Corby last night told The Daily Telegraph that Queensland woman Jodi Power's claims had been motivated by spite – and potentially jeopardised her sister's last chance at freedom.
She is planning legal action against Channel 7 and Today Tonight, which ran the claims in a paid interview.
"Schapelle is in her final appeal and for Jodi to come out and lie is low," Mercedes said.
"If there was a shred of truth in these claims, why wouldn't she have gone to the police instead of going on national TV and getting paid for it?"
During the interview, Ms Power also claimed to have seen a vacuum-sealed bag in the Corby home that was later used by Schapelle to transport marijuana to Bali.
"(Mercedes) asked if I would ever do it, if I would ever take drugs over (to Bali) and I said no, I've got two kids and I wouldn't do that and she went on to tell me that she had taken (drugs) over before," she said.
Ms Power agreed to prove her claims by allowing Today Tonight to film her submitting to a polygraph test. The report said she failed her first attempt but passed two subsequent tests.
Speaking from her Bali home, an emotional Mercedes last night dismissed those results as "nonsense" and offered to sit a test herself.
"Jodi has got a vendetta against me. What she doesn't realise is what her lies are doing to Schapelle," she said.
"My sister is sitting in jail here for 20 years for something she didn't do."
Last night, Ms Power's husband Michael Ripley rang The Daily Telegraph from the Gold Coast to refute his wife's claims.
"I still believe Schapelle is completely innocent," he said.
"Jodi has always had a tendency to come to her own conclusions about things – and those conclusions are quite often wrong."
Kathryn Bonella, co-author of Schapelle's autobiography My Story, defended her book against Ms Power's claim she was never included in it despite being a lifelong friend of the Corby family.
"She (Power) isn't the angel she makes herself out to be,"she said.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#6573764 - 02/16/07 05:00 AM (5 years, 3 months ago) |
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Corby 'took the fall' for relative
February 16, 2007 - theaustralian.news.com.au
SCHAPELLE Corby is in jail because she took the fall for another member of her family, claims the mother of the former family friend who sparked the catfight played out on tabloid television every night this week.
On Monday, Jodie Power betrayed Schapelle and her sister Mercedes, telling Seven's Today Tonight in a paid interview there was a history of drug use in the Corby family before Schapelle was jailed for smuggling marijuana into Bali.
The revelation drew emotional denials from Mercedes, her former friend, and triggered a ratings war between Today Tonight and Nine's A Current Affair.
Last night, friends and enemies of the Corby sisters came forward with fresh accusations.
Ms Power's mother, Margaret, told ACA Schapelle was innocent and predicted the truth would come out eventually.
"I'll tell you something now: Schapelle Corby shouldn't be in jail but somebody else in that family should be. That's all I'm going to say," she said.
"And I feel sorry for Schapelle and I can't believe Schapelle's taken the fall for a member of her family, and I'm not going to say who it is."
Asked whether she would support Mercedes, Margaret Power replied: "Well, we won't go there."
Asked again, she replied: "Not in a million years."
Margaret Power conceded Jodie had been a substance abuser and had smoked marijuana.
Today Tonight rolled out an anonymous high-school friend of Schapelle, his face obscured, to out the convicted smuggler as smoker and dealer of marijuana. "Marijuana has been a part of her life for a long time," he said.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#6639599 - 03/05/07 08:28 PM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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March 6, 2007 - stuff.co.nz
Corby to serve sentence at home
 Australia is set to finalise a prisoner exchange treaty with Indonesia that will allow Schapelle Corby, Renae Lawrence and others to serve their sentences back home.
The treaty should be signed after a final meeting in Australia, the Indonesian Justice Minister, Hamid Awaludin, told the Sydney Morning Herald after meeting the Attorney General, Philip Ruddock, in Jakarta yesterday.
"Everything is fine, from my side we are done," he said.
Only one monitoring issue needed to be clarified, Mr Awaludin said. "What sort of mechanism we have to establish on both sides so the prisoner can be checked on a regular basis, whether through our embassies in both countries or any other sort of mechanism."
Mr Ruddock said that from his side "there is absolutely no difficulty in terms of control mechanisms. It's something that can be worked out very easily."
He said he would not give a "daily commentary" on when the treaty would be signed.
Mr Awaludin said the only prisoners exempted from the treaty would be those sentenced to death, as Australia could not carry out their punishments.
It would apply to drug traffickers not on death row, including Corby and three members of the Bali nine heroin smuggling scheme, he said. The treaty would be retrospective.
Asked if Indonesia might object to the high-profile Corby being transferred, Mr Awaludin said: "We are not talking about individual cases. If in fact some individual cases get advantage out of it, thank God."
Negotiations over the treaty, which began last year, have been bogged by a range of technical difficulties, but officials involved in the discussions said all substantial issues had now been resolved.
Under the deal, prisoners transferred from either country would serve the same sentence, minus remissions, as they would if they remained where they were convicted.
Some members of Corby's family have suggested she would not want to be returned to an Australian jail, as she preferred the more relaxed environment of Bali's Kerobokan prison.
However, prison authorities have signalled Corby would be moved to a more isolated prison on Java, after she wrote a book criticising the conditions in the jail.
Some of the parents of the Bali nine have said they wanted their children to be transferred back to Australia if possible.
At present, three are not on death row and would be eligible, while the other six are attempting to get their death sentences overturned.
Under the treaty, only prisoners who apply to be repatriated will be returned home.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#6639627 - 03/05/07 08:37 PM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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It's crazy to have followed this for so many years and finally see an end coming in her favor, but this comment makes me think wtf?
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Some members of Corby's family have suggested she would not want to be returned to an Australian jail, as she preferred the more relaxed environment of Bali's Kerobokan prison.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: Cloud9]
#6639667 - 03/05/07 08:53 PM (5 years, 2 months ago) |
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That statement blew my mind also. Regardless of what the headline states, it is not a done deal yet. The treaty still has to be signed. Some members of her family have said and done some odd things since this started, but this statement may be a way for her family to appease the Indo government in some way before the signing. They did get very pissed over some of the comments Schapelle made about the prison being a hellhole.
I personally still think she is innocent. She will be much better off at home, even in prison. And once home the liklihood of her being released early seems possible.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#6808750 - 04/19/07 12:11 PM (5 years, 1 month ago) |
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Corby jail transfer delay
April 20, 2007 - news.com.au
THE prisoner transfer deal that would bring Schapelle Corby home from a Bali jail has bogged down in negotiations between Australia and Indonesia.
Despite commencing talks on the transfer deal before Corby was convicted of smuggling marijuana in 2005, the deal has still not been signed.
The Daily Telegraph understands there is a dispute between the two countries over the wording of the final document.
A spokesman for the Attorney-General's Department said the Government was still committed to pursuing the transfer treaty with Indonesia.
"There has been frequent contact between the two governments at both ministerial and officer level, and Australia continues to accord the highest priority to negotiating this treaty," the spokesman said.
"As discussions between Australia and Indonesia are active and continuing, it is not possible to indicate the timing for finalisation of the transfer of prisoners treaty."
It appeared a breakthrough was close in late 2005 when Indonesian Justice Minister Hamid Awaludin said he was confident of pushing the required amendments through without taking them to the notoriously slow Indonesian Parliament.
In June last year, the Governments of the two nations agreed on the broad principles of an agreement, and Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said he expected to have an agreement signed by September.
That progress has since stalled, with no indication of when the deal could go through.
It is understood the deal was delayed after diplomatic tensions between the two countries flared in mid-2006 when Indonesia protested against the granting of asylum to 42 West Papuan boat people.
Corby is serving 20 years in jail after airport customs officers in Bali found 4.1kg of marijuana in her boogie board bag in October 2004.
Under the deal, Australians who have exhausted all avenues of appeal in Indonesia would be allowed to serve the rest of their term in an Australian jail.
Debate has centred on what portion of the sentence can be served at home, with both Governments requiring a percentage be served in the country where the offence took place.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#6811732 - 04/20/07 03:33 AM (5 years, 1 month ago) |
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I just read through all 12 pages tonight and am so utterly disgusted 
I don't know if she's entirely innocent, but still, it just blows my mind what some people are willing to do to another human being over a plant.
You are the shit veggie  Thanks for keeping us updated
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#6922640 - 05/15/07 10:56 PM (5 years, 17 days ago) |
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Corby begs minister to set her free
May 15, 2007 - brisbanetimes.com
 SCHAPELLE CORBY has begged Indonesia's new Justice Minister, Andi Mattalata, to free her as he made a surprise inspection of Bali's Kerobokan prison.
Mr Mattalata spent more time with Corby than any other prisoner during his unannounced, hour-long visit yesterday, but also spoke briefly to the only female member of the Bali nine heroin smuggling ring, Renae Lawrence.
Standing outside Corby's cell, Mr Mattalata asked Corby how she was and what her hopes were. "I would like to be out soon, please help, sir," Corby replied in Indonesian, observers said.
Asked how long she had been imprisoned, Corby said: "Almost three years, sir."
Mr Mattalata, who was appointed by the President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, last week, appeared to be familiar with Corby's case, but was noncommittal in his responses.
When the prison warden, Ilham Djaja, told Mr Mattalata that Corby had written a book he asked about its contents. Corby replied it "is about my life here in prison".
When he asked if could see it, Corby said she had not kept any copies. The book, My Story, is scathing about the Indonesian justice system and life inside Kerobokan.
When Mr Djaja suggested Corby had been upset in the past, she told Mr Mattalata: "I am calmer now because the press is no longer as naughty as before."
The Queenslander is awaiting the outcome of a final Supreme Court appeal, in which she is attempting to overturn or reduce her 20-year sentence for bringing four kilograms of marijuana to Bali.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#7116450 - 07/01/07 07:58 PM (4 years, 10 months ago) |
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Exchange deal blow for Corby
July 2, 2007 - news.com.au
PLANS for a prisoner exchange treaty that would allow Schapelle Corby and other Aussies in Indonesia to serve part of their sentences at home appear to have stalled.
Two main sticking points relate to who will pay for the transfer and how much time must be served in the country of sentence before a prisoner is eligible.
In March, Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer and Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said they planned to sign a treaty in June, to come into effect by August.
However, officials at the Indonesian Department of Justice and Human Rights have cast doubt on a signing any time soon.
Kolir Harianto, who heads the department's international relations division, told the Herald Sun he had seen only one draft of the treaty.
He said it was not finalised because there were still "several different perspectives" about it.
Australia had been pushing for prisoners to serve one-third of their sentence first, but Indonesia rejected this, seeking a longer initial term.
In March, Mr Ruddock announced that agreement had been reached that a prisoner would serve half of their sentence first.
However, Mr Harianto said: "There is no clear agreement on that."
Another disagreement was over whether transfers could be requested only by blood relatives of the inmate, or also non-blood relatives.
A spokeswoman for Mr Ruddock said that negotiations were continuing and there was no clear time frame for signing a treaty.
Before being eligible for transfer, the prisoner must have exhausted all avenues of appeal. And prisoners on death row would not qualify.
Most Australians held in Indonesian jails -- Corby and the Bali Nine heroin smugglers in Bali's Kerobokan Jail, plus two convicted pedophiles serving time in Lombok and Jakarta -- are either on death row or have appeals pending.
The only one to have finished all appeals is Bali Nine courier Renae Lawrence, who is serving a 20-year sentence.
Corby, also serving 20 years, is awaiting the result of her last appeal: a judicial review by the Supreme Court in Jakarta.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
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Schapelle turns 30 behind bars
July 11, 2007 - news.com.au
It was not how Schapelle Corby imagined her 30th birthday - celebrated behind bars in Bali serving a 20-year sentence for a crime she says she did not commit.
Yesterday she marked the milestone in the crowded visiting area of Kerobokan jail - with a low-key visit from her sister, brother-in-law, niece, nephews and extended family.
It was the third birthday Corby has spent behind bars and the former beauty student put on a brave face for the family that has supported her since her arrest in 2004.
While there were no tears, the desperation of her situation hung over the celebration.
There was a hand-made birthday card from niece Nyeleigh featuring pink and purple hearts and flowers and the words "Happy Birthday".
The children also had a bunch of flowers for the woman they call "Aunty Pelle". The group ate Japanese food - Corby's favourite.
Her presents included a CD player, some music and clothing - but the crowded visiting area did not allow the space or time for a proper cutting of the cake.
Instead, she took the cake back to her cell to share with her cellmates.
"She wishes she was at home celebrating with all her friends and family, going out and doing what normal 30-year-olds do," older sister Mercedes said after the jail visit.
"She is holding up okay but she was a little bit down. But she was happy we were all there with her. She was a little bit upset. She really didn't think that she would still be here this long but she was happy to spend the time with her nephews and niece."
Mercedes said she asked her sister how it felt to turn 30 and was told: "I feel 27."
This is in keeping with Corby's stated wish that she remain, in her mind, a 27-year-old - her age when arrested at Bali airport - until the day she is released and declared innocent.
Ironically, Corby was arrested in Bali when she was on her way to attend Mercedes' 30th birthday party, which did not proceed.
The drug smuggler's final chance at appeal _ a judicial review to the Supreme Court - is still pending. A spokesman for the court yesterday said the appeal documents were still being assessed by the second of three judges. A decision is months away.
Mercedes emerged from the jail with a single white rose, a present from her sister picked from a jail garden.
Corby's mother Ros and father Michael, who is suffering from cancer, did not travel to Bali for the birthday but her younger sister Meleane is due to arrive from the Gold Coast today, bringing presents.
It has been almost three years since Corby was arrested at Bali airport on October 8, 2004, after arriving on the tourist island for a holiday. A vacuum-sealed plastic bag containing 4.1kg of marijuana was found inside her boogie board bag by customs officers.
The following year, Corby was convicted of attempting to bring the drug into Bali and sentenced to 20 years behind bars.
Her sentence was reduced to 15 years on appeal but was reinstated to 20 years upon a further appeal to Indonesia's highest court.
Corby has maintained her innocence, claiming she is the victim of a gang using traveller's luggage to transport drugs.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#7231748 - 07/27/07 06:46 PM (4 years, 9 months ago) |
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Bishop questions Schapelle's guilt
July 28, 2007 - The Catholic Weekly
 An Australian bishop has renewed doubts about the guilt of the Australian drug prisoner, Schapelle Corby, in jail in Indonesia for 20 years.
The Bishop of Bathurst, Bishop Patrick Dougherty, said in the Bathurst diocesan newspaper The Catholic Observer that there continued to be many considerations which gave weight to the possibility that Schapelle Corby “may be entirely innocent and very unjustly suffering”.
He said that on the one hand there was the unconvincing course of her case through Indonesia’s justice system and the not always competent quality of her defence team’s work.
On the other hand, those who knew Schapelle spoke of her truthfulness and were convinced of her innocence.
“And the circumstances of her being arrested and charged favour this view,” Bishop Dougherty said.
“She went to Indonesia on a holiday visit to her sister and the marijuana was found at the top of her boogie-board bag, which was unlocked – a most unlikely place for a planned drug import. And Schapelle was clearly not part of a drug syndicate.
“One immediately tends to accept her explanation that it was not she who attached drugs to her baggage.”
Bishop Dougherty said it was well-nigh certain she would not have been convicted by an Australian court and that procedural matters like finger-printing would have been observed.
“Questions have to be asked as to whether the media has assiduously sought the truth of the case and worked for the victory of justice in the matter,” he said.
“With Schapelle Corby facing two decades in the appalling conditions of Denpasar prison, there seem to be sound reasons why the quest for truth and justice should not be abandoned.”
A retired Vincentian priest at St Stanislaus’ College, Bathurst, and one-time college headmaster, Fr Jim Maloney, said that he and his brother Terry, a retired businessman, believed Schapelle was innocent.
“Terry is absolutely convinced,” Fr Maloney said. “Terry went to contact her, simply feeling sorry for her, but the visit coincided with the last day of the defence, which he said was just awful.
“Of the three judges, one was reading a book and the second was asleep. Anyway, he met Schapelle’s sister Mercedes and their mother and spent a couple of hours with them and Schapelle.
“He came away convinced she was innocent and resolved to keep in touch with her.
“I’ve talked to Terry, studied her case and read her book. I, too, am sure she’s been unjustly convicted,” Fr Maloney said.
“Terry has spent many hours with her in the prison. During his most recent visit to her she was struggling with tears ... struggling to maintain her emotional equilibrium.
“But how do you prove her innocence?
“I know one airline senior executive who says secretly shipping drugs from airport to airport in people’s baggage has been going on for years and on the day that Schapelle flew to Bali there were arrests that day, over drugs, in baggage handling at Sydney airport.
“But the videotape of the day has disappeared, which I think is very fishy.”
Fr Maloney said he and Terry wrote to Schapelle often and she replied when she could.
“The other letters I’ve written are to Mr Howard, Mr (Chris) Ellison and Alexander Downer and the most substantive reply I’ve had is from Mr Downer, but only saying that she’s being well cared for.
“Yet she’s to spend 20 years in an Indonesian prison in appalling conditions for a crime that I believe she did not commit.”
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Perhaps this is a might bit insensitive, but I would hit it, sir.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#7439916 - 09/22/07 08:59 AM (4 years, 8 months ago) |
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Schapelle twist
September 23, 2007 - news.com.au
SCHAPELLE Corby's jailer has reportedly been arrested for running drugs.
Muhammad Sudrajat -- security chief at Kerobokan Prison, where Corby has been held since 2004 -- was reportedly nabbed in a police sting.
He is suspected of running drugs inside and out of the prison since he took on the post 14 months ago.
The revelation has prompted accusations of hypocrisy from families of Australians jailed in Indonesia.
Michael Norman, father of the Bali Nine's Matthew Norman, said the arrest warranted international attention.
"I think the Australian public is probably sick of it all now, as far as the Bali Nine goes," Mr Norman told a Sydney newspaper.
"But what's going on with the Indonesian government, its jails, the corruption, the cover-ups. It's important this is brought to the attention of the international community."
Mr Norman said 60 per cent of Kerobokan's prisoners were on drug-related offences.
He said it was inexcusable that those prisoners were "fed drugs" by the jail's security chief.
Matthew Norman, who turned 21 on Monday, is one of six of the Bali Nine on death row.
Sudrajat has reportedly admitted using drugs but has denied he was a drug dealer for inmates.
Corby, a former beauty student, turned 30 behind bars in July.
She was arrested at Denpasar airport on October 8, 2004. A plastic bag full of marijuana was found in her unlocked boogie board bag.
The next year she was convicted of trying to bring the 4.1kg of marijuana to Bali and sentenced to 20 years behind bars.
Her sentence was reduced to 15 years on appeal but after a further appeal, it was reinstated to 20 years.
Corby was recently refused a cut to her jail term after being caught with a mobile phone smuggled into her Bali prison.
But 10 Islamic militants jailed over the 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings, in which dozens of Australians died, received sentence cuts.
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Schapelle Corby: I want a baby
October 9, 2007 - news.com.au
SCHAPELLE Corby wants to have a baby and the thought is weighing heavily on her mind, her mother has revealed in an exclusive interiew.
 The past few months have been filled with highs and lows for convicted drug trafficker Corby during her mind-numbing existence as an Indonesian prisoner.
The Gold Coast woman has been blessed by visits from many family members and some of her dearest friends including one couple who are very close to the 30-year-old but had never flown anywhere before they went to Bali to visit her in prison.
Her mother, Rosleigh Rose, has now revealed that while these visits greatly cheered up Schapelle, there was also the down side that some of those who visited had had new additions to their families.
"That would have weighed on Schapelle's mind, because having a baby is something she thinks about a lot," she said.
Schapelle has inherited her mother's strong maternal instinct and even early into her 20-year sentence, it was something Schapelle spoke about.
The Gold Coast Bulletin's Tony Wilson, one of the reporters closest to the Corby family, also reported Corby had told him that it was upsetting to think that if she served anything like her full sentence, she would be too old to have a child and in her book, My Story, she even hinted that the longer she was imprisoned, the more she would consider the possibility of having a child in the jail.
She also missed out on receiving a possible three-month reduction in her sentence which was handed out to other prisoners in August on Indonesia's independence day when she was caught using a mobile phone in her cell.
But her sister Mercedes said reports she spent a week in solitary confinement as punishment were wrong.
"She was in a cell with three or four other girls. I was able to see her and take her food," she said.
Schapelle flew to Bali for a holiday and to celebrate her sister Mercedes' birthday on October 8, 2004, but the celebration never happened after Customs officers found 4.1kg of marijuana in her unlocked boogie board cover. Schapelle has maintained her innocence ever since.
She still has a solid core of supporters in Australia and world-wide who write to her regularly and many are in contact with family members and me about issues that could help Schapelle.
Underlying all this, she is still anxiously awaiting any news about her judicial review, which has been in limbo for more than a year.
Indonesian justice moves slowly and so far only one judge has looked at the paperwork for Schapelle's possible review.
Her lawyer, Erwin Siregar, is frustrated at the time it is taking but he said it was not unusual.
His argument is that Schapelle was charged and convicted under the wrong section of the Indonesian criminal code and if his argument is accepted then she would have to be re-assessed under the correct section, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years' jail.
While it is unlikely that she would now be found not guilty, it is possible that her sentence could be reduced dramatically to something much closer to what she has already served.
This remains her only realistic hope of serving any less time than her original sentence.
Talk of a prisoner exchange between Australia and Indonesia is still in the early stages and it is likely that even when the two governments agree to such a scheme, prisoners like Schapelle would have to serve a sizeable portion of their sentence in Indonesia.
Sadly it is a fairly bleak picture, but generally Schapelle's spirits are not too bad and she remains strong, as do her supportive family and friends.
Schapelle's father, Michael, remains in Australia, battling terminal cancer.
Rosleigh remains the tower of strength and ever the optimist. Even this week, she was talking about the Indonesian Government releasing her daughter. There are even people who believe she is guilty but feel she has now served enough time in a foreign prison.
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: veggie]
#7500399 - 10/09/07 02:31 AM (4 years, 7 months ago) |
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I wonder how much publicity she would have gotten if she wasn't deemed attractive by society?
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Re: Schapelle Corby Case [Re: daba]
#7500576 - 10/09/07 05:12 AM (4 years, 7 months ago) |
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> I wonder how much publicity she would have gotten if she wasn't deemed attractive by society?
I think it has a lot more to do with her family keeping the story alive with the media rather than her appearance.
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