Corby quizzes Bali officials, weeks out from deportation
She's happy to go home, who wouldn't be? She's happy to be with family, said an official.
Amilia Rosa is Assistant Indonesia Correspondent for Fairfax Media.
She's happy to go home, who wouldn't be? She's happy to be with family, said an official.
Prosecutors have appealed Connor's sentence to the High Court, which could result in judges imposing a harsher punishment.
A New Zealand woman who had been living in Australia has been sentenced to two and a half years' jail after a plastic sachet containing 0.43 grams of methamphetamine fell out of her pocket at Bali's Ngurah Rai airport last year.
Connor could face more years behind bars for the fatal group assault of a Bali police officer after prosecutors announced they would appeal her four year jail sentence.
Notorious people-smuggler "Captain Bram", who was paid to take asylum seekers back to Indonesia in 2015, has been jailed in Indonesia for six years.
Police are investigating an alleged sexual assault of an Australian woman in Legian, Bali, even though she had refused to cooperate,
Connor, who insists she is innocent, was jailed for four years in the Denpasar District Court on Monday.
Former war correspondent David Fox expressed his relief and gratitude to a Balinese court for recognising the "circumstances of my peculiar case" after he was sentenced to just seven months' jail for possessing hashish.
Prosecutors requested the Byron Bay woman serve the same jail sentence as her British DJ boyfriend, even though the couple testified she had nothing to do with the police officer's death.
A prosecutor has requested an Australian man who self-medicated with cannabis to treat chronic pain be jailed for a year after he was arrested with hashish in Bali last year.
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