Renae Lawrence appears to have backed away from an offer to testify at her fellow drug courier Scott Rush’s final appeal against his death sentence.
Lawrence, appearing disoriented, told journalists who visited Kerobokan jail in Bali yesterday that she had never said she would testify in court. ”I am not stupid,” she said when asked about a court appearance.
But Lawrence confirmed she had signed a statement to help Rush’s appeal after he had asked for her help three weeks ago. The statement had been given to Rush’s lawyers, she said.
Lawrence told police after her arrest in 2005 that she had made two other drug runs to Bali the previous year. But she withdrew the statement at her trial in 2006, where she received a 20-year sentence, the least severe for the nine Australians arrested on heroin charges in Bali.
Rush’s lawyers will argue at the appeal, which could begin in April, that Rush should not be executed because the other couriers received jail sentences.
Rush, then 19, was making his first overseas trip when he was arrested at Denpasar airport with heroin strapped to his body.
The convicted cannabis courier Schapelle Corby lashed out at photographers and cameramen who went into her cell yesterday as she was eating her lunch.
After crouching on the floor of a small kitchen to avoid being photographed she jumped up and threw three cups of water at the photographers. Guards then asked the media to leave the cell.
Doctors said two weeks ago that Corby’s mental health had deteriorated after her sixth Christmas in jail. She was taken to hospital twice last year, suffering psychosis and severe depression.
Corby, 32, was arrested in 2004 and jailed for 20 years in 2005 for smuggling marijuana to Bali.
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