Bali balls up? or did she DO IT?

Desperate mum flies into a rage
By CINDY WOCKNER
February 18, 2005


DENPASAR: When protesters first turned up to court with placards written in Indonesian, Rosleigh Corby thanked them as they filed into the Bali courtroom.

But tempers flared when Mrs Corby realised the group was calling for her daughter to be executed.
She became embroiled in a wild argument, throwing a bottle of water over a protester and a photographer.
The brawling outside the court came as a customs officer testified against her daughter, Schapelle.
Judges had ordered the protesters, from a group called Granat, an Indonesian anti-narcotics movement, to stay outside. It was there that they encountered Mrs Corby.
She started by telling the group that all they wanted was a fair trial for her 27-year-old daughter, facing the death penalty for allegedly smuggling 4.1 kg of marijuana into Bali.
"No one is trying to find out who put it [the drugs] in the bag They don't care who put it in the bag," she said.
"Do you believe in karma. I believe in it, that's all I've got to say to you all," she said before standing up and tossing water over a photographer's camera and a female protester.
Pointing at a sign Mrs Corby said: "Your country is full of drugs, drugs everywhere, you can't walk down the street for drugs and you are standing there with a smile."
One responded that "narcotics are bad". Another told of being jailed for taking drugs and about the need for drug dealers to be reformed.
One sign called on judges to embrace the lead of Tanggerang District Court, near Jakarta, which regularly sentences foreign drug dealers to death.
Another sign said: "In your hand and in your hammer Mr Judge, is the future of children and Indonesian people."
Only one witness testified yesterday - a customs official who gave evidence about the meaning, under the law, of the word import.
The judges and defence lawyers questioned him at length about whether you could still be guilty of importing if you didn't know the drugs were in the bag.
As the case wound up, the tears started falling down Corby's cheeks.
Outside, in the cell, she hit out at the customs witnesses, describing them as uneducated and unprofessional.
"I wouldn't be here if they had done their job. How can you be an expert customs officer if you are completely uneducated and unprofessional? I would not be on trial for my life if they had done their job properly," she said.
She thanked her family and friends for their support during the nightmare that started with her arrest at Bali airport in October last year.
Ms Corby's uncle, Shun Hatton from Darwin, spoke of the family's torment and the frustration in trying to seek assistance from Australia.
"It is just like a bad dream, you know, you think its going to be over If it was any politician's daughter there would have been strings pulled somehow to help them," Mr Hatton said.
He said the family did not even want to think about the possibility that Corby could be sentenced to death.
"We are not going there," he said.
The trial has been adjourned for two weeks.