Schapelle’s horror story

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By KIM BAX, Cedar Vale, Qld

SCHAPELLE CORBY'S on the cover of Woman’s Day again.

They’re sending her, at gunpoint, to a remote Java prison. Away from her family, she’ll die, as prisoners starve and sicken without relatives to feed them and visit.
Meanwhile, this flaccid Federal Government does nothing, while Indonesian terrorists and killers get far less. It’s a horror story of evidence denied, corruption and the death of a whistleblower.

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Unfortunately it's a fact, the harsher they treat her the less chance of another being willing to take the chance of being a drug mule.

Posted by Haydn, two years ago

So the answer is don't smuggle drugs in the first place

Posted by Peter, two years ago

I feel sorry for how harsh the penalty was but the fact is she was guilty. She was known to Fedpol and Customs as a suspect drug smuggler well before she was caught. I was a police drug squad detective when she was caught and the Customs liason officer informed us she had been on their list for years.

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