Oz couldn't take it 2962According to? Her...of course? Yeah right... You were there, weren't you? And you know why? Because its the job of FORENSICS, you...
Oz couldn't take it 2965Dave Baker Not sure if it came via an airline official as such, but it was mentioned in the judgement. There seemed to be no suggestion from any...
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Oz couldn't take it 2963Listen f***wit, once you check in your luggage at any airport you don't see it until you get to the destination, as was my case...
It's more a belief that they have not established her guilt and that the court system there is heavily biased in favour of the prosecution.
Drugs were found in her checked luggage, which she had not touched since she checked in at Brisbane. It went to Sydney and then was transferred to the internation flight from Sydney to Bali, she didn't touch it again until Denpasar. She claims the drugs are not hers (yeah they all say that so that doesn't mean anything by itself) however the Police-Customs *refused* to dust the plastic bag for prints, despite her family members there insisting that they do so. The Police-Customs can't explain why. There is a scandal over drug smuggling at Sydney airport involving baggage handlers at the moment. There is hearsay evidence (from a prisoner in jail in Oz) that he heard two others discussing her capture and joking about it. According to him, they were discussing that it is common to ship drugs from Queensland to Sydney for sale on the streets there by slipping them into bags at Brisbane airport and having it removed at Sydney. The person who owns the bag never knows about it and they were suggesting she had been used as an unwitting mule in that system but someone slipped up and the drugs weren't retrieved at Sydney. This is of course hearsay, but the prisoner doesn't know her or her family and has gained nothing from his story except to endanger himself for 'grbutting' on other prisoners.
The concern in Australia is that despite them not being able to prove that she owned the drugs and put them in her bag, they convicted her and gave her 20 years. Most of us feel that in a fair court, she should not have been convicted.
The court in Bali is something of a turnstile, no acquittals in over 500 trials. The legal system there is modeled on the Dutch one, where there is no presumption of innocence and you must *prove* your self innocent. This is clearly very difficult.
Oh, she has no history of involvement in drugs or indeed anything illegal, she was tested for drug use after her arrest and nothing was found. Drug 'mules' are frequently users, so this also fits with her story that she has no involvement in the drug culture at all, much less trafficing in it.
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