Corby could leaving Indonesia within six months

tembelekbahagia.blogspot.com - Convicted Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby is expected to return home next year after a new report claims she has just six months left on her parole.

The details of her release are expected to be confirmed over the coming months.

Parole Board officials and Indonesian Immigration say Corby will be deported home on May 27, 2017, after 12 years in Bali. 

The Queenslander was convicted of smuggling 4.1kg kilograms of marijuana into Bali in 2005 and sentenced to 20 years in jail.

Corby protested her innocence throughout the trial, insisting she had no knowledge of the cannabis found in her bodyboard bag and that the drugs were in fact planted there by another party. 

She attempted to appeal her conviction and sentence and was denied by the Indonesian Supreme Court.

An appeal for clemency to Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on the grounds of mental illness in March 2010, was not successful.

Corby's sentence was later minimised to 15 years following a judicial review in May 2012 and in February 2014 Corby was granted parole after serving nine years in prison.

Indonesian law required that Corby serve an extra year of her sentence under supervision.

Corby was the first Australian to be granted parole in Bali, and the second in Indonesia. 

In 2008, Corby’s former lawyer Robin Tampoe suggested that her brothers may have been behind the smuggling operation that saw Corby convicted.

Her brother, James Sioeli Kisina, was previously jailed for his part in the theft of money and drugs during a Queensland home invasion in October 2006.

source: www.9news.com.au