Comments on: Don’t forget Schapelle Corby

By: jen

jen — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:09:35 +0000

Having just returned from living overseas for the last 12 years, finally had time to read a great book. As a backpacker who’s travelled the world I’ve experirecnced the threat of some customs guy “finding” restricted drugs in your bags, my own nephew just went overseas for 6 months ( never been o/s B4) had to pay some mexican cop off because he had panadol on him! Australia, Qantus & schapelle’s lawyers should be completely ashamed of themselves for complete lack of disregard for something they should be held accountable for – like supplying evidence, and what happened to all the baggage handlers accused of trafficking? Are the australian tax payers paying for their defence or unemployment benefits?
There is always 3 sides to the story her side their side and the truth, so dig deep and hang in there schapplle.

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:01:06 +0000

Hi. I am in the middle of reading Schapelles heart wrenching story. I have never believed she was quilty. Same on Australia for nor looking after her. She is clearly there for the publicity and the money she is bringing to Indonesia. They are thieves,and brutual people with no regard to human life. I think about Schapelle all the time and pray that she will be freed soon to continue her life as she once knew it.

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:05:57 +0000

Schapelle is innocent …i have read her story and heard alot of ppl commenting on her case …logically speaking she is innocent ..it mite be a setup, revenge from someone dunno..why wod she ever think os taking drugs with her when she can get it anywhere ??? she is not that stupid …bali\’s dont want her out i think ..stubborn uneducated ppl …all our support is with corby ..may god bless u and get u home safely

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:16:05 +0000

i beleive schappelle is innocent and that she was not given a fair trial i have worn a yellow band around my wrist from dy one and will not take it off untill the day she is found innocent and coes home were she belongs.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 30 May 2006 12:08:27 +0000

schappelle is a stupid idiot and probably lost her case because she gave herself a migrane by hitting herself in the head she cries so much because she lost her drugs and now is an ugly thing and the druglord is probably very annoyed now
regards anonymous

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 02:27:54 +0000

The premise of that story has now been completely discredited.
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CORBY IN THE CLEAR
By TEGAN SLUGGETT
13jan06
SCHAPELLE Corby has been cleared of any link to the Adelaide man facing drug charges with whom she was photographed in Bali’s Kerobokan Prison.

Ultimately, this inaccurate beat-up should work in Schapelle’s favour since the early enthusiasm of the Bali prosecutor to obtain the photos again highlights what is a massive hole in the prosecution case. That after 15 months of trying neither the AFP, the Bali police or the embittered rumour-mongers of Australia have found any evidence of Schapele having links with drugs in Oz or in Bali.

By: VaughanW

VaughanW — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 21:37:27 +0000

This new turn of events for Schappelle Corby could definately be a turn for the worse.

The “innocence” card was played heavily in the trial, and these photo’s will do serious damage to her appeal – regardless of whether the Indonesians have the pictures or not

By: baker

baker — Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:31:39 +0000

You read the story but where is the comments by police? where is the photo? It seems like this reporter hasnt’ even seen the photo as he doesn’t describe it or when/where it was taken at all. Who was his sorse of the information? This could be all hearsay! This is a cleverly writting story with no substance and written to make Corby look guilty and involved with this un-named arrested man. This is Australian media at its worst. Ps: the reporter also added his own facts from the court eg: Customs officers never said in their testimonies that Corby slapped their hands not to open the bag.

By: RealityCheck

RealityCheck — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:48:20 +0000

Corby photos seized in cannabis raid
From: By Keith Moor
December 10, 2005

POLICE have seized photographs of Schapelle Corby with a man who has just been charged with marijuana smuggling.

The alleged drug dealer is pictured alone with Corby in some photographs and with Corby and another couple in others.
They were found during a recent police search of the alleged dealer’s home in South Australia.

He was the target of a joint SA-Queensland police operation into a hydroponic marijuana smuggling ring allegedly operating between the two states.

The photographs were taken before Corby was charged in October last year with importing 4.1kg of marijuana into Bali in her bodyboard bag.

They were found in a raid that police believe helped bust a marijuana-smuggling ring operating between SA and Queensland.

The man pictured with Corby was recently arrested and charged by SA’s drug and organised crime investigation division.
A preliminary examination of the seized photographs has found they appear to be genuine.

The chance discovery of the photos comes as Corby, 28, is preparing to appeal against her drug-smuggling conviction and sentence.

Her lawyers last month lodged her appeal with Indonesia’s Supreme Court in Jakarta.

They claim lower-court judges failed to consider evidence that would set Corby free.

But the Balinese prosecution team has said it plans to lodge a counter-appeal, claiming a recent Appeal Court decision to cut five years from the Gold Coast woman’s sentence should be reversed and her 20-year jail term reinstated.

Balinese prosecutors are expected to seek access to the photographs seized by police in SA.

They will want them to try to cast doubt on claims by Corby in her trial that she had no connection with drugs or drug dealers.

The Balinese prosecution team is likely to request that police in Australia hand over the photographs and provide evidence about the alleged role in the drug-smuggling operation of the man pictured with Corby.

Corby’s team argued somebody planted the marijuana in her bodyboard bag and said corrupt baggage handlers in Australia may have been responsible.

“I have never been involved with drugs,” Corby told the Bali court during her trial.

“I don’t like drugs. It’s not my drugs. I wouldn’t even know where to get the drugs from.

“I am not a person involved in drugs and I am not a person who might become involved in drug-smuggling operations.”

The three Indonesian judges who jailed Corby for 20 years in May said she was legally and convincingly guilty of attempting to import drugs into Bali.

They said they believed the evidence of two Customs officers and two police officers who were present when Corby was stopped at Denpasar’s Ngurah Rai airport on October 8 last year.

The judges said they gave consistent testimony that Corby was nervous when asked to open her unlocked bodyboard bag and actually slapped away an officer’s hand as he reached for it.

Their evidence was that Corby said, “No, no – I have some”, and that she confirmed she owned the items in the bag.

The judges said Corby’s witnesses had failed to provide any objective evidence to back her story that the drugs were planted in her unlocked bag.

Members of SA’s drug and organised crime investigation branch conducted the operation with Queensland Police that resulted in the Corby photographs being found.

They stopped a car near Burra, SA, in late November.

A search located a large amount of cannabis hidden in the boot.

An SA man in his 40s was arrested for possessing cannabis and has been bailed to appear in court at a date to be arranged.

Several residential and rural properties in SA and Queensland were later raided as a result of the November seizure.

Fifteen kilograms of hydroponically grown cannabis and almost $60,000 in cash were seized in the raids, as were the photos of Corby with the alleged drug smuggler.

A 60-year-old man and a 53-year-old man from SA will face charges of possessing cannabis and taking part in the sale and supply of cannabis.

Five men and two women were arrested in Queensland as part of Operation Co-Pilot.

A spokeswoman for SA police said that investigations into the alleged smuggling ring were continuing and that further arrests were expected.

Corby’s father, Michael, was convicted of possessing marijuana in the 1970s.

Half-brother Clinton Rose has faced drug possession charges and spent time in jail for a range of offences, including breaking and entering, theft, fraud and unlawful use of a motor vehicle.

Michael Corby said in April that his daughter was opposed to drugs.

“She had nothing to do with bloody drugs,” he said.

“She might have had a puff when she was in bloody Grade 10 or something, around the back of the schoolyard like kids do – I don’t know.

“She’s had nothing to do with it since, or any time as far as I know.”

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17519841-1246,00.html

By: Duck

Duck — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 16:15:58 +0000

Toney: hatful???