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A T.V series about 'our Schapelle' is in the making.... :facepalm:
Stars fight it out for Corby drama
Schapelle Corby so low she wanted to die but now, as parole nears, she can't wait to go to the beach
BY CINDY WOCKNER AND KOMANG ERVIANI THE DAILY TELEGRAPH AUGUST 24, 2013 12:00AM
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Schapelle Corby IN a prison van on arrival at a court hearing in Denpasar / Pic: AFP Source: AFP
SCHAPELLE Corby was so low three months ago she told a psychiatrist she wanted to die - now she can't wait to go to the beach.
With her freedom now likely within months, the extent of the convicted drug smuggler's desperation inside Kerobokan Jail can be revealed.
A psychiatrist interviewed the former Gold Coast beautician at the request of the jail Governor and her report suggests Corby was a broken woman.
Her push for parole - to allow her to live with her sister's family in Bali - had stalled, caught in red tape, and she was increasingly desperate.
SCHAPELLE VOWS TO BE A CRIME-FREE PAROLEE
SCHAPELLE MUST UNDERTAKE 'MORAL TRAINING'
CORBY'S BIKINI PLAN UPON HER RELEASE
HOW SCHAPELLE WILL LIVE AFTER BALI PAROLE
Cell number 1 of the women's block where Schapelle Corby jailed with another five women at Kerobokan Jail in Bali / Pic: Lukman S. Bintoro
After almost nine years in jail, pleading her innocence, the only reason she didn't kill herself was because of her family, who had steadfastly stood by her.
In March another psychiatrist interviewed Corby and reported that she was suffering a "psychotic type depression" and needed "comprehensive therapy", psychiatric support and group therapy.
Now, with freedom close, Corby, begged her prospective parole officers last week: "Please help me to get parole, I really need it" and broke down in tears as she protested her innocence.
The first thing 36-year-old Corby wants to do when she gets out is go to the beach, walk on the sand and swim in the ocean.
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The family compound where Mercedes Corby lives / Pic: Lukman S. Bintoro
The family compound where Mercedes Corby lives / Pic: Lukman S. Bintoro Source: News Limited
GALLERY - THE LIFE OF SCHAPELLE CORBY
Officials have inspected the home of her sister Mercedes and husband Wayan Widyartha in Kuta to ensure it is suitable for her to live when she is released from jail on parole.
Corby's correctional supervisor will be Ni Luh Putu Andiyani. The mother of a 13-year-old boy, Ms Andiyani is one year older than Corby.
She will be responsible for monitoring and mentoring Corby after she is released and for one year after the expiration of her parole.
Ms Andiyani told News Ltd that the first thing Corby asked them during the interview was: "Can I really get parole?" And she said: "Please help me to get parole. I really need it."
"She even asked us, how long the process will run until she gets parole. She asked 'Is it possible within six months, or maybe one year?' We explained to her that we couldn't guarantee how long it will take. We asked her to wait patiently and then she said OK," Ms Andiyani said.
"We asked her about her drugs case. She talked much about her case. She insisted that she was not guilty. She said that she didn't know anything about drugs in her surf board bag ... She was crying while explaining her case."
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Schapelle Corby in front of her cell in 2004 / Pic: Lukman S. Bintoro
Schapelle Corby in front of her cell in 2004 / Pic: Lukman S. Bintoro Source: News Limited
Ms Andiyani said Corby told them she was looking forward to being with her family.
"She just said that she was eager to leave Kerobokan (Jail) and stay at home, enjoy her life in the fresh atmosphere and have a chat with her family."
Ketut Sukiati, who was also at the interview, said Corby had been happy to see them.
Ms Sukiati said Corby told them: "The prison is too crowded and stuffy. Outside, at least I feel free and can enjoy fresh air."
Corby told them she wants to work in Wayan and Mercedes' clothing business, designing swimwear. The business designs and makes children's bikinis for a Bali outlet and overseas markets and also makes children's ballet leotards and other clothes with lycra material.
She will live with Mercedes and her Balinese husband and their three children in Wayan's traditional family compound in central Kuta.
The family lives in one of the group of houses which surround a Hindu temple. Other family members live in the other houses.
After almost nine years in jail, sharing a cell with up to 13 other women and sleeping on the floor so close to her cellmates, it is not known how she will handle freedom - whether she will be able to sleep alone in a bedroom or will need to share with someone.
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(Schapelle Corby in 2008 / Pic: AFP
(Schapelle Corby in 2008 / Pic: AFP Source: AFP
How she will handle crowds is another issue that the family is now thinking about. Corby has a deep fear of the media crowding around her and being in Bali, surrounded by Australian tourists, will be a challenge.
The jail Governor, I Gusti Ngurah Wiratna, says that in recent times there has been a huge change in Corby's demeanour. She now works, with 36 other inmates, making wooden fans, for a company which sends the wood into the jail for production.
He said that Corby currently shares a cell with seven other inmates but that the women's block is overcrowded - built for 52 but housing 105 inmates.
And he said that Corby fears leaving the women's block because she fears journalists.
Corby was sentenced to 20 years jail for smuggling four kilograms of marijuana into Indonesia in 2004 but has since had her prison term reduced.
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Can she get parole whilst proclaiming her innocence in Indonesia ?
I thought parole was part of a rehabilitation process.
Wow....she already has 9 years in. I remember when this story broke. Time flies.
I wonder who here Baha Indonesian is.
And yeah, does she have to admit guilt to be paroled in Indo?
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The fate of convicted Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Leigh Corby remained stuck in the gears of Indonesian bureaucracy on Wednesday as authorities in Bali said the provincial office of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights had recommended her for parole, but that the national ministry still needed to give its consent.
“We have sent the recommendation to the central government and, usually, there would be an answer within 12 days,” Made Badra, an official at the provincial office of the ministry, said on Wednesday.
Badra said a hearing on Tuesday had concluded that Corby’s parole request be recommended for approval because she had conducted herself well while in prison and had served two-thirds of her jail time.
Deputy Justice and Human Rights Minister Denny Indrayana had appeared to apply the breaks to Corby’s parole momentum on Friday, when he said the ministry in Jakarta had not received any documents from the authorities in Bali.
Comments by Badra today indicate that stumbling block should now be out of the way.
“The parole recommendation has been sent online via email to the Director General of Corrections,” Made said. “The hard copy will be sent by express post.”
Made said that all the documents should be in the hands of the Justice and Human Rights Ministry by the beginning of next week at the latest.
Denny Indrayana said on Friday that the national ministry would not allow any pressure from the Australian government to influence the decision of whether to grant parole.
“Do you think that we can rule over the Australian Supreme Court? Of course not. It goes both ways — they cannot make me or the minister grant parole to Corby,” Denny said at his office on Friday. “The only consideration is the law.”
If the application were granted by Jakarta, Corby would remain in Bali for the term of her parole, living with her sister, Mercedes, until the terms of release were satisfied.
Bali Authorities Say Schapelle Corby Parole Recommendation Sent to Jakarta - The Jakarta Globe
Corby's fate in hands of man not afraid to say yes
The Indonesian government minister who holds Schapelle Corby's fate in his hands has virtually guaranteed the convicted drug smuggler will be granted parole when the recommendation hits his desk.
''The record of Schapelle Corby is good, and if a good person serves her sentence well, we automatically have to give her rights,'' Justice and Human Rights Minister Amir Syamsuddin said on Thursday.
Mr Amir, who is likely to finally sign Corby's parole application within the next fortnight, has also given some hope to the two Bali Nine drug smugglers on death row, and revealed that on a trip to Australia earlier this month he paid a mercy visit to an Indonesian drug smuggler serving time in an Australian maximum security prison.
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2013/10/5085.jpg Parole likely: Schapelle Corby has been in a Bali prison since being convicted of smuggling 4.2kg of marijuana on May, 27 2005. Photo: Getty Images
Speaking of Corby's case, Mr Amir implied that her parole was a done deal.
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''I'll give Schapelle Corby her rights not because of me, but because of the regulation, because of the law,'' he said.
''She can receive [parole] as long as there is someone who guarantees her. I know that the [Australian] embassy has guaranteed her behaviour and I know there are other parties who have also already given guarantees.''
https://teakdoor.com/images/imported/2013/10/5089.jpg 'The record of Schapelle Corby is good' ... Indonesian Justice and Human Rights Minister Amir Syamsuddin. Photo: Michael Bachelard
However, Mr Amir said letting Corby out of Kerobokan prison would cause him political pain because anti-drug activists accuse the administration of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of kowtowing to Australian government pleas for leniency for Australian drug convicts.
''But I'm not afraid that I'll be unpopular as long as I implement the law.''
He also drew a direct link between Corby's expectation of parole and the belated mercy shown by Australia to under-age Indonesians jailed for crewing asylum-seeker vessels.
Corby's parole application was signed off by the Bali corrections office two weeks ago and is now under consideration by bureaucrats in Jakarta. They have up to three weeks to double-check she has fulfilled all criteria before her file is forwarded to Mr Amir for sign-off.
Mr Amir is the minister who cut a deal in 2011 to help a 14-year-old Australian boy after he was arrested for buying marijuana in Bali. Mr Amir made sure the boy went to an immigration detention centre instead of Kerobokan prison with hard-core adult criminals. But he denied he had any special affection for Australians, saying the boy's case, too, was simply in accordance with the law.
In a bizarre twist to the Corby drama, Mr Amir revealed that he had recently visited an Australian maximum security prison to comfort an Indonesian man serving a 20-year jail sentence who felt he had been treated harshly in comparison to Corby.
On an official visit to Australia between October 14 and 16 to meet Immigration Minister Scott Morrison and Attorney-General George Brandis for talks on people smuggling, Mr Amir took time out to visit the Indonesian national Aris Munandar. Aris was caught in 1997 aboard a ship with 450 kilograms of heroin that he intended to smuggle to Australia.
But Mr Amir said every time Aris saw on TV that Schapelle Corby had received clemency or good behaviour remissions at Kerobokan, he felt ''anger and anxiety''.
Mr Amir explained to the prisoner that the two justice systems were different.
''He would have received the death sentence squared [in Indonesia],'' Mr Amir said.
Jesus, just get her out of that shit hole.
She has well and truly payed her time for the crime she committed.
Let her get on with it.
the cow needs a bullet not early release.
Wazamara Feely?
Did she and her clan stuff ya deal up?
Corby's half-brother to admit drug charges
SCHAPELLE Corby's half-brother will plead guilty to cocaine possession charges, his lawyer says.
James Soeli Kisina appeared via video link in the Beenleigh Magistrates Court, south of Brisbane, on Tuesday.
His lawyer Tamara Lawton asked for an adjournment until next Tuesday, saying her client would plead guilty.
The 26-year-old was charged with possession of a dangerous drug and obstructing police after being arrested at Waterford, near the southern Brisbane suburb of Logan, on October 26.
Kisina was remanded in custody.
He was with Corby when she was caught attempting to smuggle more than 4kg of marijuana into Bali in a bodyboard bag on October 8, 2004.
Corby was sentenced to 20 years behind bars in 2005, but Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono last year granted her clemency on humanitarian grounds and slashed her sentence by five years.
Last month, Corby edged closer to parole after winning crucial approval from the Justice Ministry office in Bali.
The convicted drug smuggler would have to serve her parole in Bali, where she would live with her sister Mercedes and brother-in-law Wayan Widyartha.
Corby's half-brother to admit drug charges | News.com.au
At least you realize that she was caught and sentenced for a crime she committed.Quote:
Originally Posted by terry57
She has not spent enough time in prison yet, a bit longer is needed.
Last thing we need is another waster hanging around Kuta, send her back to Aus.
It was only a bit of weed wasn't it?
legal in many places, why so many want to see her drawn and quartered is beyond me.
^ On the flip side, she is a dumb bint who got caught doing a pathetically stupid caper where the penalties are well known.
There are people all over more deserving of compassion.
It was a BIG BAG OF DRUGS that Customs found in her boogey board bag, banged to rights in the middle of an airport. The trial had some irregularities it is true but she was correctly found guilty, after all it was a BIG BAG OF DRUGS that Customs found in luggage she presented for inspection.Quote:
Originally Posted by Koojo
The bizarre tale she told at trial of baggage handlers in Aus inserting it was dismissed as it was not properly evidenced, there was no reasonable doubt. Whilst Australians get worked up about Corby as some sort of victim it is just not true, she was caught with a BIG BAG OF DRUGS and was convicted on the presented evidence and sentenced in accordance with the laws of Indonesia.
It may be legal in a few places to possess marijuana and in some other places the police will not prosecute small quantities. However Indonesia is not one of those places and it was not a small quantity (which would still have got her 5 to 7 years), it was a BIG BAG OF DRUGS for resale. It was a business she was in that carries some reward but a lot of risk of imprisonment.
She is serving time in prison and may get parole on condition she stays out of trouble, first hint of reoffending and she goes back to prison.
As to drawing and quartering, that usually follows execution. Execution was one of the options for Corby, she has got away with a medium stint in prison and will probably be paroled to hang out in Kuta.
There is of course the philosophical point as to whether any substance should be legislated against and criminalised and I would accept that tobacco and alcohol are in the strange position of being legal and taxed when they are just as harmful as marijuana. But politicians make the laws and the people in Indonesia want it so, the voters are anti drugs.
There certainly are.Quote:
Originally Posted by Necron99
What was she caught with?
A Big Bag Of Drugs
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Originally Posted by BKKBanger
The only thing that pisses me off is that she will make a lot of money selling her story.
As far as keeping her Banged up goes, ya friggin joking ain't Ya. ????
So you reckon 9 years already served hard time in Bali finest ain't enough. ?
Lucky she has survived it I reckon. Stupid bint anyway but she's done enough.
If it was a fat middle aged bloke nobody would have given a toss and we would never have heard about him, bit of ass and tit and it's a media frenzy. When does her book come out? my life in hell etc etc, actually the prison she is in looks pretty cushy, by Thai standards at least.
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Originally Posted by terry57Quote:
Originally Posted by BKKBanger
The only thing that pisses me off is that she will make a lot of money selling her story.
As far as keeping her Banged up goes, ya friggin joking ain't Ya. ????
So you reckon 9 years already served hard time in Bali finest ain't enough. ?
Lucky she has survived it I reckon. Stupid bint anyway but she's done enough.
Proceeds of crime act Tez, hopefully it applies and she wont get a cent.
As to her conditions, it looks like she is more comfortable there and has more freedom than she would in an Oz jail.
Fucking hell, it's not like she was a serial killer or mass murderer or dealing in life destroying drugs like heroin and meth.
Yes she broke the law and therefore suffers the consequences but posters suggesting she needs a bullet, for example, or a filthy drug smuggler and should be locked up for good are taking it too far.
Again, it was just a (ok, big bag of) weed.
Generally understood to be relatively harmless, though I would suggest any country that legalizes it can probably expect production to slow down and sales of cookies to rise.
The Dutch are generally considered to be failrly conservative and they've had dope cafes there for a long time.
Even the U.S. is realizing weed isn't the killer it was made out to be in the fifties.
I suppose some here still subscribe to the reefer madness school of thought.
The Dutch have had a gutful of their dope cafes.
No, they've had a gutful of people from neigbouring countries coming in to stock up.Quote:
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Originally Posted by KoojoNo, they've had a gutful of people from neigbouring countries coming in to stock up.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingwilly
Yeah, it's the drug tourists they have had enough of.
With Corby I think the negative attitude shown by many including myself is entirely due to all the wailing sob stories and endless months and years of tv and magazine innocence stories, all the tearful photos etc...
She is victim of her own PR campaign.