Schapelle Leigh Corby is an Australian woman who was convicted of smuggling cannabis into Indonesia. She spent nine years imprisoned on the Indonesian island of Bali in Kerobokan Prison. Her trial and conviction were a major focus of attention for the Australian media. She was released on parole on 10 February 2014 after serving nine years in prison. According to her parole conditions, Corby was to leave Bali on 27 May 2017 and returned to Australia. She is the third of her mother’s six children.
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Schapelle Leigh Corby is an Australian woman who was convicted of smuggling cannabis into Indonesia. She spent nine years imprisoned on the Indonesian island of Bali in Kerobokan Prison. Since her arrest Corby has publicly maintained that the drugs were planted in her bodyboard bag and that she did not know about them. Her trial and conviction were a major focus of attention for the Australian media. She was released on parole on 10 February 2014 after serving nine years in prison. According to her parole conditions, Corby was to leave Bali on 27 May 2017 and returned to Australia. She is the third of her mother’s six children. Her mother’s marriage to Corby’s father which ended in 1979 when she was a baby, also produced Mercedes and Michael Jr. Corby met a Japanese man, given the pseudonym Kimi Tanaka by the media, who was on a working holiday in Australia and the two began dating. The couple married in June 1998 in Omaezaki, Shizuoka, Japan. They separated in July 2000 and the couple’s divorce was finalised in 2003. On 8 October 2004 Corby, her brother and two friends flew from Brisbane to Bali transiting in Sydney. It was her first visit to the island in four years, having had several previous stopovers between Australia and Japan to visit her sister, Mercedes. Passing through customs upon her arrival at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar, she was stopped by customs officers and found to have 4.
2 kg of cannabis in a double plastic vacuum-sealed bag in her unlocked body board bag. Three of her travelling companions claimed in their testimony that they had seen her pack for the bag before leaving for the airport. Her defence argued that she had no knowledge of the cannabis until the customs officials at the airport found it inside it. The prosecution case was based on the customs official’s testimony that Corby said the bag was hers, and that it was found to contain 4 2kg cannabis. Four customs officials present when her bag was first examined in Bali said she tried to stop the bag being opened, and said she had said ‘I have some.’ Corby denied this during the trial, saying she originally opened the bag after being asked by Gusti Nyoman Winata whose bag it was. No CCTV footage of this interaction was retrieved or preserved. The Australian Government offered the Queen’s Counsel on a pro-bono basis on a basis of two services of two lawyers. The Queen’s Counsel offered the Australian Government on a Pro bono basis and said Corby had become an unwitting courier for the drug and that the drug was not her own. In March 2010, Cor by petitioned the President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, for clemency on the grounds of mental illness. In May 2012, shewas granted a five-year sentence reduction. She has since been deported on that date.
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