YEAR 10 ALTERNATIVE TASK
- Schapelle Corby must be released from prison immediately as a humanitarian act.
Dear Sir,
upon first hearing about this case, my first judgement I imagine was quite similar to most peoples, that Schapelle Corby was guilty.
The pieces just seemed to match together with drug history in her family, the random trip overseas and of course the fact that she had 4.2kg of marijuana in her boogie board case hints towards guilt.
But, after researching this case further I have began to discover pieces of information I was not aware of.
There are many bits of this story that just don’t make sense, many suspicions and points of doubt.
Also many loose ends that were never quite tied together.
These are some of things that led me to believe that maybe I was too quick to judge Shapelle Corby and perhaps you were too.
When Schapelles bags were weighed before leaving Sydney airport to Bali, screenshots from security cameras captured photos of the weight of the bags, 65kg all together. These photos now crucial pieces of information were somehow deleted 25 days after Schapelles arrest at the Bali airport.
Also, once Schapelle was found in possession of the drugs in her boogie bag, rather then treating the bags as crucial pieces of evidence; they were handled by several customs officers, destroying any chance of the bags being dusted for finger prints.
Schapelle Corby’s sister Mercedes even made a statement saying that when she had asked the customs officers to stop handling the bags so that they could be dusted for finger prints they simply laughed at her and said ‘too late.’.
I know by seeing the basic outline of the case, it looks like Schapelle Corby is guilty of smuggling 4.2kg of marijuana into Bali in a boogie board case, but perhaps the saying ‘Don’t Judge A Book By It’s Cover’ comes into play.
Yes, Shapelle Corby has drug history in her family.
But, I believe there are too many area’s of reasonable doubt to fully...
