re: why corby was guilty?
This is a repost, I never really got any sort of reply about whether corby's friend, a self-claimed eye-witness to the bag being dope-free and the claimed bad-treatment by the Indonesian customs officials.
It would seem that this friend testimony should certainly carry some weight. But it might be even more significant if this friend was not called as a defence witness.
Subject corby 'will never be the same' Posted 23/05/05 12:02 - 160 reads Posted by wildthing_2000 IP 219.95.xxx.xxx Post #187598 - start of thread - splitview
"She's innocent. I saw that bag with my own eyes when it was checked in at Brisbane airport, there was no drugs there."
Interesting comment by a friend of Corby's.
Anyone know if thie friend of corby's was called by corby's lawyers as a witness and if this was the same testimony she gave?
Corby 'will never be the same' May 23, 2005 From: AAP
INDONESIAN customs officials taunted Schapelle Corby after discovering drugs in her luggage, her best friend has said. Alyth McComb, Ms Corby's former flatmate and friend of four years, said airport staff found the Gold Coast woman's distress amusing when they discovered 4.1kg of cannabis - which Ms Corby says was planted - in a bodyboard bag.
The pair had travelled to Bali together for a holiday.
"It was like chaos, like Schapelle and the marijuana were a trophy," Ms McComb told New Idea magazine. Advertisement:
"There was one officer who seemed to be taking so much delight in the whole thing ... I will never forget the image of him laughing at Schapelle."
Ms Corby, 27, faces life in prison if found guilty in an Indonesian court this Friday of drug smuggling.
But even if she was acquitted, Ms McComb said her happy go-lucky friend would never be the same.
"It's changed her a lot," she told the magazine.
"The girl who you see in the picture who is so fun-loving and doesn't have a care in the world - she's gone forever.
"She's 27 years old with the world at her feet and some gutless person has robbed her of the best time of her life."
Ms McComb said she feared her friend might never return home, or have the husband and children she so desperately wanted.
"It seemed clear the judges' minds were already made up because of how little regard they had for witnesses or any sort of evidence that supported Schapelle," she said.
"She's innocent. I saw that bag with my own eyes when it was checked in at Brisbane airport, there was no drugs there.
"Schapelle wouldn't know the first thing about drugs, let alone transporting them.
"It's the sense of injustice that is overwhelming - she's serving time for a crime she didn't commit and that's wrong."
