Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby, who always protested her innocence on charges of taking 4.3kg of marijuana to Bali, has had her prison sentence slashed by five years after Indonesian authorities recommended her application for clemency be granted.
Schapelle has been in prison for eight years and has suffered publicly from what her family say have been numerous mental health setbacks.
While originally sentenced to 20 years prison, Corby has amassed numerous sentence cuts (typical of the Indonesian government and usually handed out at significant holidays) which, when combined with the five year clemency sentence cut, could see her home in a few years.
Corby is soon to be told of the clemency success.
Reports suggest Corby could be freed by August … but on a parole application which is still an off chance given they are rarely if ever offered to foreigners. If she is offered parole, she would not be able to return to Australia until her parole term ends.
Corby has family in Indonesia.
Authorities are yet to clarify exactly how long is left on her jail term.
This post will be updated as information comes to hand.
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I really look forward to seeing how she parlays her infamy into a lucrative Australian television gig when she returns to Australia. I bet that Harry M Miller has been rubbing his hands in anticipation. Maybe when she does, all the people who have knocked Delta for not being 'worthy' of a tv gig, can really have something to moan about.
I won't be buying it. What will there be to hear anyway other than lies and melodrama, "I suffered so much when I got out of prison to get my eyebrows plucked".
I think people like to say that she is guilty because they think it makes them look cynical and cool.
I doesn't. It makes them look like opinionated without knowing the facts, which scares me.
Yeah, that's why, I am just dying to look cool and cynical to strangers on the net. It's not because she was caught with kilos of drugs in her bag and she comes from a family of drug dealers. The only thing that suggests she might be innocent is her claiming she is innocent. You do know that most convicted criminals say they didn't do it?
People blindly defending drug dealers scares me.
but did you always think she was guilty? Before the stuff about her family came out? And is it fair to tarnish someone based on their family?
And did you think Lindy Chamberlain was guilty too? Some people still swear she did it, in spite of several coroners (or whatever) findings that she is not.
Of course drug dealers are bad, that's not what I am saying. But how can you make an opinion on someone's guilt so confidently, based on what the media has told you? What's wrong with "I dunno, i don't have all the facts, and I know i can be manipulated by the media."
Or is the thought that she might be innocent too terrifying to contemplate, because then, something like this might happen to you?
She was found guilty by their justice system, not by people in Australia so your point is moot. Our government really should mind their own business rather than fighting for drug smugglers (anyone really believe our government hasn't been paying for her and the other drug smugglers to get reduced sentences?). When do people in other countries get to involve themselves in our justice system? How is it she lives in better conditions than other prisoners, has makeup and trips out of the prison to beauticians?
Thats ridiculous and kind of childish, Camille.