Dunno if it's been reported over there, but there is an Australian woman in Bali who could be about to face the firing squad due to drug smuggling charges (9lb marijuana in a boogy board case).
She argues that she is entirely innocent.
An Aussie prison inmate has testified that she is the innocent victim of an Australian interstate drug smuggling racket, in which baggage handlers load passenger's baggage with drugs, and their accomplices pick them up at the other end...some "shipments" go missing, and when her baggage was transferred to an international flight, the drugs went with them.
The 27-year-old former beauty student from the Gold Coast faces possible death by firing squad after being caught with 4.1 kg of high-grade cannabis in her unlocked bodyboard bag at Bali airport last October.
JAKARTA (AFP): Australia's justice minister said on Thursday that Canberra would not intervene in the high-profile trial of an Australian woman accused of smuggling a large bag of marijuana onto Indonesia's Bali island.
They had been unsuccessful in getting any video surveillance tapes from Brisbane or Sydney airports which might have showed Corby's bag during the luggage handling phase, and in their battle to have the drugs independently tested for their origin.
and just to prove that it can, and does happen...
Qantas says it's identified a baggage handler believed to have taken an animal costume out of a passenger's checked-in baggage at Sydney airport this week.
From the time that you hand over your baggage, it is in the control of other people. Some countries will not allow locked baggage, and will forcibly open anything that is locked.
And ultimately, YOU are the person answering to customs at the other end.
She argues that she is entirely innocent.
An Aussie prison inmate has testified that she is the innocent victim of an Australian interstate drug smuggling racket, in which baggage handlers load passenger's baggage with drugs, and their accomplices pick them up at the other end...some "shipments" go missing, and when her baggage was transferred to an international flight, the drugs went with them.
The 27-year-old former beauty student from the Gold Coast faces possible death by firing squad after being caught with 4.1 kg of high-grade cannabis in her unlocked bodyboard bag at Bali airport last October.
JAKARTA (AFP): Australia's justice minister said on Thursday that Canberra would not intervene in the high-profile trial of an Australian woman accused of smuggling a large bag of marijuana onto Indonesia's Bali island.
They had been unsuccessful in getting any video surveillance tapes from Brisbane or Sydney airports which might have showed Corby's bag during the luggage handling phase, and in their battle to have the drugs independently tested for their origin.
and just to prove that it can, and does happen...
Qantas says it's identified a baggage handler believed to have taken an animal costume out of a passenger's checked-in baggage at Sydney airport this week.
From the time that you hand over your baggage, it is in the control of other people. Some countries will not allow locked baggage, and will forcibly open anything that is locked.
And ultimately, YOU are the person answering to customs at the other end.
