Almost seven years after Australian Schapelle Corby was convicted for drug smuggling in Indonesia, a woman has come forward saying she believes Corby could have been set up.
The woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity and used the alias ‘Sue’, says a Brisbane Airport baggage handler could have planted the marijuana found in Corby’s luggage.
Corby is serving 20 years years at Indonesia's Kerobokan jail after over 4kg of marijuana was found in her luggage at Denpasar Airport on October 8, 2004.
Sue told Australia’s Nine Network on Thursday that she used to date a baggage handler at the airport, who had a colleague come to work in October 2004 with a large bag of marijuana.
“When the supervisor was coming down the guy panicked,” she said, “and the first thing he did was look for somewhere to hide it”.
“He grabbed one of the bags that was behind him and hid it there. When he was talking about a big bag, he meant a big bag.”
Sue, who used to work as a clinical counsellor in North Queensland and has signed a statutory decision regarding her claims, says she can give police the name of one of the baggage handlers.
She says her conscience prompted her to come forward.
“What if [Corby] is really innocent and she has to do 20 years? What if she doesn't make the 20 years?”
While Corby’s lawyer Kerry Smith-Douglas described Sue's statutory declaration as "extremely important", it remains unclear if Indonesian or Australian authorities will pay any attention to the claim.
It's not the first time claims have emerged about baggage handlers planting marijuana in Corby's bags – in 2008 unionists demanded a public apology after an allegation that baggage handlers planted the drugs.
Corby's former lawyer Robin Tampoe later admitted he made up the theory.
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