Twister

Hmm after taking into account things I have heard and read I am starting to sway towards thinking the following:

Someone in the Airport Party that ventured into bali with the OVERWEIGHT boogy board bag KNEW SOMETHING!!!
And I think that poor old Schapelle might have been the scapegoat in the situation.
Thats my thoughts at this point in time. And I think the desperation shown by SC is a result on her knowing how it got there but she was just a accessory.

nev

Because the Bali police refused to weight her luggage, refused to fingerprint the plastic bag and refused to get a DNA test done, all at SC's request, this leaves the Bali police open to suspicion. Why did they refuse these requests?

No video footage was available for the baggage handling area at Bali. The police said it was not necessary.

My personal belief is that the drugs were slipped into the bag in Bali prior to the boogie bag making it to the pickup area... and the police knew in advance.

Nev

uluru

Downer or someone said that our airports didn't keep weight records anyway....that weighing the bag to find any difference in weight was impossible.
He said we weigh the bags on the conveyor belt at check in only for excess baggage reasons...that there was no printout or record kept.

sturuomo

That's BS.

The captain needs to know the total weight which is recorded on a manifest so they know how much fuel to take on. The heavier the plane the more fuel. That is why everything is weighed and passengers pay more if they have excess baggage.

janie

The reason the plastic bag was'nt finger printed was because the security guards helped themselves to the MJ at the airport in front of Schapelle . Remember in the book ? Schapelle wrote that the police came in with black bags and helped themselves. Pity they didnt take more of it , It would have helped her in the long run. I suppose they flogged it off some unsupecting tourist?:eek:

uluru

What they said was that they could not isolate the weight to any particular ticket or person.

nev

Hi Janie
If they had fingerprinted the bag and Schapelle's were not found then that would indicate she had not touched the bag. They could easily have eliminated each fingerprint found.

Another item I have a problem with is that when the boogie bag was opened the bag had a slash releasing the odour that alerted Schapelle to the drugs within. How that bag could have gone through two other airports without anyone smelling the dope (even the dogs would have picked it up at a distance) is another puzzle. So who cut the bag?

I believe it was done at Bali airport by persons unknown to make certain the drugs were discovered.

Nev

janie

Hi Nev, I have felt all along that someone in Bali knew more about the drugs, but arnt coming forward. The big question is Who or Why ?

janie

Did someone mean to set Schapelle up or was it just coincidence that the drugs endedup in her boogie bag ?

uluru

My money is on Jemaah Islamyah terrorists and/or their supporters [20 million in Indonesia] to attack Westerners and enslave them all in prisons...Jihad.

or Bali cops who were laughing at Schapelle.....and at her lawyers outside the courthouse after her sentence..........also to capture a Western trophy prize, to justify their jobs.


OR it could simply have been missed by corrupt baggage handlers at Sydney airport, having been sent by organised crime figures.."grass castle" mafia gurus in Qld.

Think there's no grass castle mafia in Ozland?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Mackay

Donald Mackay (13 September 1933 - 15 July 1977), was an Australian anti-drugs campaigner who came to fame in 1977 through the circumstances of his presumed abduction and murder.

Concerned about the growing drug trade in his local area, and learning of a large crop of marijuana in nearby Coleambally, Mackay informed Sydney drug squad detectives, resulting in several arrests and the conviction of four men of Italian descent.

Unfortunately for Mackay, at the trial of the men arrested, his name was read out during evidence, identifying him as the whistleblower.
On July 15, 1977, Mackay disappeared from a hotel car park after having drinks with friends and has never been found.

Mackay's disappearance led to then-premier Neville Wran appointing Justice Philip Woodward to lead the Woodward Royal Commission into the illegal drug trade in New South Wales. In 1979, Woodward found that Mackay had been murdered by a hit man acting on instructions from the The Honoured Society, a Griffith-based cell of the Mafia, known in Italy as the 'Ndrangheta.

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The Woodward Royal Commission?

Yikes!

You oughta read that sometime!


Speak out against organised crime figures in the drug trade?....er, no thanx.

Looks like no one else is game to either.
Someone knows where the drugs came from....they didn't just fly into the bag.