Schapelle Corby timeline of events
Schapelle Corby drug smuggling case — timeline
(See main article Why the Bali judges found innocent Schapelle guilty)
Timeline of events from January 2006 until the present
2006 – 2008 diary and timeline following the Schapelle Corby case
2006
January 19, 2006 — Schapelle's half-brother James Kisina, who was with her at Bali airport when she was arrested, faced court on January 19, 2006 over his alleged involvement in a violent home invasion. Invaders allegedly attacked two people with an iron bar and a machete, then took a large amount of cannabis and cash. Kisina's lawyer said Kisina would vigorously defend police allegations.
January 21, 2006 — Police say they have directly linked Schapelle Corby's half-brother to the drug run to Bali that led to Schapelle's 20-year jail sentence, Queensland's Courier-Mail newspaper reported today. Detectives made the allegations against James Kisina, 18, in court documents after he was arrested for allegedly leading a home invasion on Tuesday night. James Kisina carried Schapelle's boogie-board bag to the Customs desk at Bali airport, but when officials asked him if it was his, Corby interrupted and claimed ownership.
January 24, 2006 — Schapelle Corby's mother, Rosleigh Rose, said in an interview with Australia's The Bulletin magazine this week that Schapelle had refused an offer to bribe her way out of trouble in Indonesia. Ms Rose said that in the moments after Schapelle's arrest at Bali airport in 2004, Indonesian Customs officers handed over phone numbers and hinted they could work something out. “But [Schapelle's sister] Mercedes and Schapelle said 'No, it's not hers',” Ms Rose said, according to today's Sydney's Daily Telegraph newspaper.
January 31, 2006 — Australian TV news program 7.30 Report ran a story last night that Schapelle Corby's father had a close association dating back years with a man accused of running a large marijuana operation. Police raided the man's central Queensland farm a month before Schapelle's Corby's arrest in Bali, but did not know at the time that Michael Corby owned the property next door, the 7.30 Report said.
February 1, 2006 — Schapelle Corby's mother, Rosleigh Rose, yesterday slammed as “total lies” new claims linking her family to the drug trade. She said she was considering legal action. She returned from visiting her jailed daughter in Bali on Monday night, only to walk into a fresh media storm linking her ex-husband Michael Corby to a man charged with growing hydroponic marijuana, the Brisbane Courier-Mail reported.
March 8, 2006 — Schapelle Corby's half brother, James Kisina, made a brief court appearance today on drug charges. He will reappear for a committal hearing on June 19. Queensland police have previously alleged in a court affidavit that Mr Kisina may have been involved in the attempted smuggling of cannabis into Bali, The Advertiser reported today.
March 17, 2006 — Schapelle Corby's lawyer and family were distraught today when Jakarta's authorities burned the drugs found in Schapelle's boogie-board bag, under Jakarta Supreme Court orders. They also burned her boogie board and blue board bag, which had contained the drugs and her flippers. Schapelle's lawyer Erwin Siregar said, “We don't have a chance any more to bring this evidence to the court when there is an extraordinary appeal.” The marijuana was never tested for origin.
April 6, 2006 — One of Schapelle Corby's former lawyers, Robin Tampoe, says he is angry at new revelations that bear on Corby's conviction. AAP newswire reported today that security cameras at Sydney Airport had been tampered with during the period that Corby travelled to Bali. But Justice Minister Chris Ellison said the cameras were working properly when Corby passed through Sydney Airport on October 8, 2004.
June 4, 2006 — Brisbane's Sunday Mail reported that since public outcry about Schapelle Corby has died down, Schapelle is writing more letters from jail in Bali to get support.
June 19, 2006 — Schapelle Corby's half-brother, James Kisina, today failed in his bid for bail while facing drug charges related to a violent home invasion. Kisina, 18, allegedly broke into a house on January 17 with two other masked men and stole cash and cannabis, The Advertiser reported today.
July 10, 2006 — Schapelle Corby celebrated her 29th birthday today — in Kerobokan jail. Her mother, Rosleigh Rose, Bali-based sister Mercedes, and her niece and nephew attended the jail to be with Schapelle.
July 11, 2006 — Schapelle Corby's lawyer announced he is preparing an extraordinary appeal to Indonesia's Supreme Court which he will present by December.
August 11, 2006 — Schapelle Corby's lawyer today lodged an appeal application for a judicial review to the Denpasar District Court, which will hear the case but pass it to the Supreme Court for a final decision, The Age reported.
August 17, 2006 — Indonesia's court today reduced Schapelle Corby's 20-year prison sentence by two months to mark Indonesia's Independence Day.
August 25, 2006 — Schapelle Corby's lawyers said today they will petition Australian Justice Minister Chris Ellison for security videos taken at Sydney Airport on the day she flew out for Indonesia. This is a last-ditch bid to overturn Corby's conviction and 20-year sentence for smuggling 4.1kg of marijuana into Bali in October 2004.
October 13, 2006 — James Kisina, Schapelle's 18-year-old half brother, was convicted today of a violent, drug-related home invasion in Brisbane. Kisina was one of three masked men who broke into a Rochedale home on January 17 this year and stole cash and cannabis.
October 16, 2006 — Schapelle Corby's mother today denied that her daughter had ever had a boyfriend in prison. She was responding to an article in Australia's New Idea magazine, which had an interview with a man (Tjin Eddy Yu) the article claimed was Schapelle's prison lover.
October 17, 2006 — James Kisina, the half-brother of Schapelle Corby, was sentenced yesterday to four years' jail for his role in the violent theft of drugs and cash from a Brisbane home, The Australian newspaper reported today.
October 25, 2006 — In an extract from Schapelle's upcoming book, My Story, published in The Australian Women's Weekly today, Schapelle says she believes the Bali Nine contributed to her harsh sentence. She also says she was terrified of the Bali Nine's Renae Lawrence, who she imagined to be “a psychopathic lesbian”.
November 10, 2006 — Schapelle's book, My Story, was released today. The book paints a sad picture of Schapelle having to endure racist and sexual taunts from guards. Photos in the book show Schapelle with her new-look short hair.
2007
2007 diary and timeline of the Schapelle Corby case
January 8, 2007 — Australia's New Idea magazine reports that Schapelle had an “unbearable” Christmas and hopes to return to Australia under a prisoner-exchange deal. She said “I may wear make-up and I may look OK, but I'm not OK ... I didn't do this.”
February 13, 2007 — A former family friend of the Corby family, Jodi Power, in a paid TV interview on Today Tonight last night, said Schapelle's sister had tried to entice Ms Power to smuggle drugs. Today's Courier-Mail newspaper says Mercedes Corby has denied the claims and said she plans legal action against the program. Jodi Power's husband has also denied his wife's claims. [Note: Ms Power's allegations were aimed at Schapelle's sister and family, but the confused report probably led some viewers to think they were aimed at Schapelle.]
February 14-15, 2007 — Allegations against Schapelle Corby and her family continued on Channel 7's Today Tonight program, which is becoming noted for Christian bashing as well as Schapelle bashing.
May 27, 2007 — Brisbane's Sunday Mail newspaper reported that a plan to move Schapelle Corby from Bali's Kerobokan prison to a facility in Java, hundreds of kilometres away, had been cancelled because conditions at Kerobokan had improved. Schapelle had said in her book, My Story, that Kerobokan was a “disgusting slum” that had no running water or power.
August 18, 2007 — Ten Islamic militants won remissions on jail terms over the horrific 2002 and 2005 Bali bombings that killed scores of Australians. But Schapelle Corby lost her expected three-month remission because she had a mobile phone in her prison cell, the Herald Sun reported.
August 21, 2007 — Schapelle Corby's mother Rosleigh Rose attacked Australia's Labor leader Kevin Rudd for not acknowledging the plight of her daughter, now serving 20 years in an Indonesian jail for drug trafficking, Melbourne's The Age newspaper reported.
September 12, 2007 — Schapelle Corby's sister Mercedes Corby and mother Rosleigh Rose are suing Australia's Channel 7 television network, claiming the broadcaster's Today Tonight program defamed them in February.
October 9, 2007 — Schapelle Corby's mother revealed in an exclusive interview that Schapelle wants to have a baby, because her maternal instinct has always been strong.
December 8, 2007 — An ex-heroin addict told police that associates of Schapelle Corby, using fake passports, were connected to a regular drug run between Brisbane and Bali.
December 13, 2007 — The governor of Kerobokan Prison said yesterday he was recommending that Schapelle be given a small reduction to her prison term for good behaviour.
December 15, 2007 — The author of Schapelle Corby's biography, Kathryn Bonella, says that people who have turned against Schapelle since she was jailed have been misled by total lies and innuendo.
December 25, 2007 — Schapelle Corby has been denied a Christmas day reduction in her sentence — because she had a mobile phone in her cell earlier in 2007.
December 26, 2007 — The governor of Bali's Kerobokan Prison asked the Australian consulate in Bali for the names of people who are likely to visit prisoners in his jail. This follows claims that a cruel hoax website was offering tourists the opportunity to photograph and feed Schapelle Corby.
2008
2008 diary and timeline of the Schapelle Corby case
January 18, 2008 — Michael Corby, Schapelle's father, died after battling cancer. His death was announced today. Schapelle was reported to be distressed over the death, because she had hoped her father could have been able to visit her in jail before he died.
February 5, 2008 — The Herald Sun reported today that a Hindu preacher visiting Bali's Kerobokan jail told Schapelle Corby to “be content with what you have now”. Schapelle was also the first prisoner to try a new phone installed in the jail for prisoners to use. She called her mother.
March 4, 2008 — Channel 9's A Current Affair last night spoke to a tourist who said she took a photo in Bali of Schapelle Corby having dinner in a kebab restaurant while she should have been in her cell. But The Australian newspaper today said the program was unable to come up with a single witness who could positively identify Schapelle as being the woman in the photograph.
March 10, 2008 — Schapelle Corby today rejected allegations she and sister Mercedes were spotted eating at a Bali restaurant last month. She said she has been let out of her Bali prison home only three times in the past four years — for medical reasons.
March 20, 2008 — Queensland's chief justice has ordered an investigation into the affairs of Schapelle Corby's sister Mercedes, ABC News reported. The matter involves the payment of more than $280,000 for Schapelle Corby's book on her drug ordeal in Bali and an interview with the magazine New Idea.
March 20, 2008 — The Herald Sun reported today that Channel 7 has been accused of trying to hinder the sister of convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby in continuing her defamation case against the network. The New South Wales Supreme Court today also heard a claim that Mercedes Corby was driven out of Australia last year because of constant harassment and stalking by the network's agents.
March 28, 2008 — Indonesia's Supreme Court today ruled that Schapelle Corby's original 20-year jail sentence should stand. This was in response to Schapelle's final appeal to have her sentence reduced.
April 17, 2008 — Sydney's Daily Telegraph announced that an Australian-made documentary exploring the plight of convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby would be shown in the United States before it is shown in Australia. Ganja Queen was shot during Corby's 2005 trial in Indonesia with the cooperation of Schapelle's family, although they have not yet seen the finished film.
April 22, 2008 — News.com.au today reported that Schapelle Corby may be given a prison job that could shave years off her 20-year sentence.
May 30, 2008 — Schapelle Corby's sister Mecedes, 33, last night won a New South Wales Supreme Court defamation action against Channel 7, her former best friend Jodie Power, and others, in a confidential settlement.
June 18, 2008 — News.com.au reported today that Schapelle Corby's mother, Rosleigh Rose, had reached a secret out-of-court settlement in a defamation suit against Channel 7.
June 21, 2008 — A Kerobokan prison official said Schapelle was taken to a Bali hospital yesterday suffering from depression.
June 22, 2008 — A new documentary about the Schapelle Corby case was screened on Channel 9 tonight: Schapelle Corby: The Hidden Truth. It portrays the Corbys as having no idea how to carry out their ambition to have Schapelle freed.
June 23, 2008 — The Transport Workers Union has demanded an apology from Schapelle Corby's legal defence team for their “vicious and defamatory” claim that baggage handlers were responsible for planting marijuana in her boogie board bag, The Sydney Morning Herald reported today.
June 24, 2008 — A TV poll taken after the screening of Janine Hosking's documentary on June 22 revealed that 53 per cent of viewers who responded still believed Schapelle was innocent.
June 24, 2008 — The Queensland Law Society advised airport baggage handlers to lodge a complaint against Schapelle Corby's former lawyer Robin Tampoe. The Transport Workers Union has been outraged by Tampoe's admission in a television documentary that he fabricated the defence that baggage handlers put the drugs in Corby's bag, ABC News reported today.
June 24, 2008 — The final part of the TV documentary about the Schapelle Corby case was broadcast on Channel 9 tonight. It did not reveal how the drugs got into Schapelle's bag, but one of the people interviewed (Malcolm McCauley) said he knew what happened and would reveal it in 18 months.
June 24, 2008 — Photographs of Schapelle Corby in her Bali hospital ward show she is frail and disconsolate, and on the verge of “total breakdown”, News.com.au reported today.
July 3, 2008 — After visiting a beauty salon yesterday to try to bring her out of depression, Schapelle Corby relapsed and will stay in hospital longer than expected, The Age newspaper reported today. The salon is part of the hospital in which Schapelle was recovering.
July 4, 2008 — Schapelle Corby has received an outpouring of support from the United States following a film documenting her plight screened on US television, News.com reported. Readers from the US have expressed their angst and concern at Corby's treatment since the documentary Ganja Queen screened on US cable channel HBO last week.
July 5, 2008 — One of Schapelle Corby's uncles, Alan Trembath (her father Michael's cousin), told Australia's ABC News that Schapelle's father was part of the drug trade in northern Queensland for three decades. Three weeks before Schapelle's arrest, police informant Kim Moore reported Michael Corby as being involved in the transport of large quantities of drugs to Bali. Flight records for Michael Corby obtained by the ABC revealed he travelled to Bali on September 4, 2004, just four weeks before Schapelle Corby was arrested at Denpasar airport.
July 6, 2008 — Queensland Police said the allegations that Schapelle Corby's father Michael was involved in drugs had been investigated when Kim Moore made the allegations in 2004 and they had been found to be unjustified. “Queensland Police has no evidence to link Michael Corby with involvement in the drug trade,”a police spokesperson told The Australian newspaper.
July 6, 2008 — Alan Trembath's sister has denied her brother's allegations that Schapelle's father Michael Corby was involved with marijuana, The Australian newspaper reported today. Lyn Lack said Trembath's allegations were totally false. She told the newspaper that Trembath hardly knew the Corby family, despite being Michael's cousin, and that Schapelle “probably didn't even know he existed”. Schapelle's mother and sister have also denounced Trembath's claims.
July 6, 2008 — The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Schapelle's mother, Rosleigh Rose, said she could not believe her ex-husband ever had $80,000 to offer Trembath. “That was like a million dollars in those days,” she said. “We were buying $20 cars on Compton Road with no floor and I was at home with three kids in a housing commission house.”
July 7, 2008 — The Australian newspaper today reported that Queensland's Premier, Anna Bligh, said rumors and allegations surrounding Schapelle Corby's family did not necessarily point to their involvement in trafficking drugs to Bali. “I don't think you judge people on the basis of who their family is,” Ms Bligh said.
July 9, 2008 — A day before her 31st birthday, Schapelle Corby has been taken back to her prison cell from hospital, where she has spent almost three weeks suffering from severe depression.
July 10, 2008 — Schapelle turned 31 today.
July 10, 2008 — The Daily Telegraph today reported that head of security, Maliki, told Schapelle “to accept her condition and the reality, even though she believes she is not guilty.” Schapelle has also applied to be transferred to a smaller prison in Bali.
July 11, 2008 — News.com.au reported today that Schapelle Corby had been denied her request to be transferred to a small low-security prison.
July 13, 2008 — The Sunday Mail (Brisbane) reported today that Adelaide drug trafficker Malcolm McCauley claims that the drugs in Schapelle's boogie-board bag belonged to her father, Michael. Both Channel 7 and Channel 9 had reportedly offered McCauley up to $60,000 for his story. Schapelle's mother had previously said her husband had to scrape to pay bills, and that he never had large amounts of money to pay for drugs or for anything else.
July 14, 2008 — The Australian Federal Police today ruled out an investigation into the claims of Malcolm McCauley that Schapelle Corby's father owned the drugs that were in Schapelle's bag. The police said they had already investigated similar claims and could find no evidence that Michael Corby senior had links to the drug trade.
July 21, 2008 — Schapelle Corby's half-brother, James Kisina, has denied he was the courier of the drugs she was found guilty of smuggling into Bali, the Canberra Times reported today.
August 15, 2008 — ABC News announced today that Schapelle Corby's sentence may be reduced on Sunday, Indonesia's Independence Day. Indonesia traditionally gives remissions every Independence Day on August 17 and also on some religious holidays.
August 18, 2008 — Indonesia yesterday cut 3 months off Schapelle's 20-year sentence under the nation's independence day celebrations, The Australian reported today
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