Thread: "Beauty therapist" Corby gets extended sentence

l believe now that Corby is guilty, and therefore has to do the time as sentenced. l hated the whole media beat up. he was tried in the Ozzie press and found to be innocent, based not on the evidence, which was clearly damning to her case, but purely and simply on the size of her tits. This case was the owrst sort of tabloid politics that l can think of. The media managed to sway Oz public opinion in quite unhealthy ways, to the point where relations with lndonesia have taken a real hammering. All this over w oman who appears clearly to be guilty. She gets to do her time and the media has moved on in search of the next set of tits, sorry, l mean the next unjust case they can take up as their cause for a few weeks of sensation, in order to keep their circulation figures up, up up.

All of this is of course a bit different from the poor wee Brit drug dealers who get caught and sentenced in Thailand. lf the tits are big enough Blair puts in a special request to the Thais, all is forgiven and the poor widdle, drug dealer goes home, sadder, pooer and much wiser, l am sure.

What a load of shit. Corby does her time, but so should everyone else who gets caught. Pollies keep your noses out of the affairs of other countries, don't go chasing popular causes for a few more otes at home. Let's have some consistency on this issue please.

in the news today...

Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby says in a new book that she blamed the Bali Nine for the severity of her prison sentence and believed the heroin trafficking group's Renae Lawrence was "a psychopathic lesbian".
In her forthcoming book, My Story, due to be released in two weeks, Corby says that she "hated" the Bali Nine and thought Renae Lawrence was a "freak", an extract published in today's The Australian Women's Weekly says.
"I felt sure their (Bali Nine) crime of trafficking heroin had contributed to me getting 20 years," Corby said.
"I was terrified of Renae Lawrence. I thought she'd pick on me, start fights and ram my head into the cement walls.
"All the girls who had been sharing cells with her had been telling stories about the freak.
"She refused to let anyone else sleep if she was awake. She kicked them in the head, sexually hit on them, punched them.
"So, by the time she checked in at Kerobokan (prison), I imagined Renae as a psychopathic lesbian - I was scared to death of her."
The extract does not make clear Corby's thoughts on Lawrence now.
In the book, written by Corby and Kathryn Bonella from what the magazine described as "secret interviews", Corby tells how she stopped Lawrence killing herself with a razor blade.
She also provides a harrowing account of life in Bali's Kerobokan prison.
"I've seen horrors in here that are sickening beyond belief," she said.
"Prisoners bashed to a pulp, girls attacking each other with broken glass bottles.
"I've seen people trying to kill themselves, a woman miscarrying in my cell, prisoners having sex, female guards passionately kissing female prisoners.
"I haven't lived a totally sheltered life, but nothing could have prepared me for this."
Her mother Rosleigh Rose told AAP her daughter would not be afraid of suffering consequences in the Bali prison for her tell-all book because "nothing could be worse than what Schapelle is going through right now".
Ms Rose said she would not read the book unless she received her daughter's permission.
"She doesn't speak to me about things. If something has happened I know Schapelle can't talk about it, so we just hold hands," she said.
"I don't really want to know what's happened in jail to Schapelle.
"I know bad things happen. I will ask Schapelle if she wants me to read the book or not.
"If she says 'mum I don't want you to be upset', then that's fine, I won't read it."
Ms Rose said Corby was determined to set the record straight in a book "because so many lies and so many different stories" had been told about her daughter.
Ms Rose last week was forced to deny Corby had a boyfriend in prison after Australia's New Idea magazine published an interview with "Schapelle's secret prison lover", Tjin "Eddy" Yu.
Ms Rose said she would next visit her daughter in January.
Corby was arrested with 4.1kg of marijuana in her bodyboard bag at Bali's Denpasar Airport in October, 2004.
Australia and Indonesia are close to signing a prisoner exchange scheme that could allow prisoners such as Corby to serve their sentences in Australia.
However, Corby's lawyers say she is not interested in the scheme.