Schapelle Corby is not a fictional soap character. She is human, just like you.

She feels pain. She suffers. She worries. She crys.

She misses her family. She misses her life.

She is alone, depressed, hurting.

Her cries for justice are not heard. Her voice is not heard. Her tears are not seen.

This is the inconvenient REALITY that the government and the media want to hide, through smears and innuendo. They want you to forget her, to move on.

Please DON'T move on. Please HELP her.

12 Hours and 20 Years:
The Schapelle Corby Nightmare

Who was Schapelle Corby on
October 8, 2004?

5.33am: Schapelle Corby, her brother James, and two friends present their luggage at the Brisbane Airport check-in counter: three suitcases and a boogie board in its carrying bag.

She was someone’s daughter. Someone’s sister.
Someone’s best friend

6am : With the travelers on board, the flight departs for Sydney .

She was a 27 year old woman from Brisbane , Australia who left beautician school to care for her cancer-stricken father.

7:30am : Their bags are transferred from Qantas’ domestic terminal to the international terminal where they are scanned and cleared for their scheduled flight. The three suitcases are X-rayed and placed onto a conveyor which delivers them to the loading bay in Pier C.

She was looking forward to visiting her older sister, Mercedes, in Bali .

8.18am : The boogie board is too big for the conveyor. It is put on a trolley, hauled to Pier C and then put into a canister, which contains two of the other bags. Its loading sequence is 70, making it one of the last items put into the canister, placing it near the front. It would be one of the first bags taken out when unloaded in Bali . The canister is closed by a canvas flap but not locked.

To save enough money to pay for this holiday, Schapelle spent a year working in her mother’s fish and chip shop.

9:52am : The boogie board bag is loaded onto the flight to Bali , Indonesia .

Schapelle wanted to help her sister celebrate her 30^th birthday.

10:20am : Schapelle’s flight departs for Bali .

She liked boogie boarding and spending time with friends and family.

3:30pm local time: Schapelle and her companions arrive in Bali

She liked elephants.

4:00pm local time: Schapelle’s hands are full with her luggage so James helps by dragging her boogie board bag along with his own luggage to the customs counter. She lifts the bag to the counter and notices that the zippers were closed in the middle. She always closes zippers on the left side. Following the request from the customs officer, she unzips the bag. Inside: 10 lbs of marijuana.

The next 7 hours…

Schapelle is subjected to questioning (without a lawyer) and pressured to sign documents written in Indonesian (she refused). At one point Schapelle was ordered to strip…in front of the male police officers…in front of her brother…in front of the photographers. After much pleading from Schapelle and Mercedes, a female officer was brought in and the others left.

The next 5 weeks…

Schapelle is held at the police headquarters jail in Polda. She is not allowed so much as a mat to sleep on. She sleeps on her blue sarong…a sad reminder of why she came to Bali .

The next 6 months…

On November 12, 2004 , Schapelle is transferred to the notorious Kerobokan Prison. Indonesian prosecutors prepare their case. Requests by Schapelle to have the bag containing the drugs fingerprinted and the drugs forensically tested for origin go unanswered. Closed-circuit TV footage at Brisbane Airport that would have captured Schapelle checking in her luggage mysteriously disappear.

The next 20 years…

On May 27, 2005 Schapelle Corby is sentenced to 20 years in prison.

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12 Hours and 20 Years: The Schapelle Corby Nightmare

12 Hours and 20 Years:
The Schapelle Corby Nightmare