Drug dealers 'at Corby's trial'

admin · 12-13-2005, 07:54 PM

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By Rosemary Desmond
December 13, 2005
SCHAPELLE Corby's mother says the suspected drug dealers photographed with her daughter in an Indonesian prison also had been photographed in the court at Corby's drug smuggling trial.

Rosleigh Rose said she had no idea the men, from Adelaide, had recently been charged with smuggling marijuana.
She cannot even remember their names, but said they seemed like "nice blokes".
Police found pictures of Corby and the men in a raid on a home in South Australia during investigations into an alleged marijuana smuggling ring.
Ms Rose, who lives at Logan, south of Brisbane, says she met the men at the Secret Garden restaurant in Kuta in May.

"They must have gone to the court that day or the day before," Ms Rose said.
One of them said his nine-year-old granddaughter loved and prayed for Schapelle and had written a little note in support to her, hoping her grandfather could deliver it in person or to give it to a family member to deliver.
"I just asked Schapelle if they could come and visit and she said yes.
"I told Schapelle he had a little granddaughter and when they did come and visit, Schapelle already had a little note to give him to give to his granddaughter."
Ms Rose's partner took the photos inside Kerobokan prison but believed the pictures may have now been erased from the digital camera.
But since May, Ms Rose said she had gone through her photo prints and found a picture of the two men in the court at Schapelle's trial.
"I've got them in the second back row of the court. I found the two fellows."
She had no idea they were alleged drug dealers and believed taking the photographs of the men with her daughter was completely innocent.
"They just seemed like nice blokes and I really thought I was just doing something nice for someone to make their day a little bit better because my day was so bad," an emotional Ms Rose said.
The photos had been taken in the visiting area at Kerobokan where Corby is serving a 15-year term for drug smuggling.
Bali prosecutors are expected to seek access to the photos of Corby with the men, ahead of an upcoming appeal. News Limited newspapers reported the photos' existence on Saturday, saying they were taken before Corby was arrested on October 8, 2004, when customs officers at Bali's airport found 4.1kg of marijuana in her unlocked luggage.

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