Schapelle Page #5

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to see Pel walk in here,

right now,

like it's all been a bad dream?

Schapelle had a good day

in court and we really got

something to celebrate today.

The Australian Government will be

sending up the prisoner from Victoria

who will testify for Schapelle.

John Ford is the witness

we've been waiting for. Yay!

Cheers.

Schapelle Corby

is the innocent victim of domestic

drug trafficking in Australia

by what I regard as petty

criminals and cowards.

It's called a mule,

where the criminal

puts the drugs in someone's bag.

But what you say you heard, this

were before Corby

travelled to Bali?

The ones about the drug

trafficking operation

between Brisbane and Sydney, yes,

but then after Corby's arrest

I had a conversation with

the two other prisoners

who were laughing that Corby

had been sprung

and that the drugs Ronnie

was expecting had got lost.

What are the names of

these two prisoners?

Terry and Paul.

Can you give me their last names?

No, I cannot. Why not?

I don't know their last names.

How do you know that Corby

is not part of a syndicate?

That'd be silly, your Honour.

No-one smuggles drugs into Bali.

It's just not cost effective.

And then there's

the death penalty.

You've named three men.

But who is the one who put

the marijuana in Corby's bag?

I can't recall his name.

Did you do this to have

a free holiday to Bali?

The judges were smirking.

I know. Look, even the journos were

smirking but look he said some good

things. It was a disaster.

We're getting trashed

and we just need...

We need to put more pressure

on the f***ing government

and a $1 million reward to the

person who proves her innocent.

We have no time.

Businesses, individuals,

they could chip in $1000 each.

It's a minute to midnight.

Meds.

Every time I hit that media scrum

I think someone's going to kill me.

Health problems?

Um, vomiting and still got

diarrhea

if you really want to know.

Look.

Schapelle, we need an adjournment.

Your verdict is coming up

but we're clutching at straws.

Now, listen, I'm going to tell you

how to stall.

Schapelle...

Schapelle, how are you feeling?

Schapelle... Schapelle...

How are you feeling?

Schapelle, are you alright?

How's your sister doing?

Is she holding up alright

in the cells?

Schapelle, how do you feel?

Schapelle, look this way...

What medication are you on?

Oh, my God, get some air

in her bloody face.

Get back, ya, prick.

Give her some air.

Go on.

You've heard your friends

say we won't comply, so piss off.

Dad!

Do something.

They just caught nine kids

at the airport here.

What?

Had heroin strapped

to their bodies.

What's that mean for Schapelle?

Nothing. She's innocent.

And what about

your bloody lawyers?

They talking to the judges

or whatever? Just sit down.

These kids, they'll get

the death sentence for sure.

Judges will think, oh, yeah, may

as well give it to Schapelle to.

For God sake, Mick, sit down

and shut up. Sort yourself out.

I'll die before she's out of here.

I'll never see her.

Never!

Oh, sh*t.

Sh*t. Sh*t.

Sh*t. Sh*t.

Oh.

Where's that card?

Tell us why you should not receive

the death penalty?

Do you have

any proof that you did not put

the plastic bag

in your boogie board bag?

All I know is I've never had

anything to do with drugs.

I don't like drugs.

I wouldn't even know

where to get drugs from.

Then how and why is that

plastic bag in your bag?

There's nothing I can

say to prove to you that

I didn't do it, but I didn't.

It's not mine.

I wouldn't threaten my life.

I love my family.

I love everybody.

Please, it's been six months.

Please use all the evidence and

let me go home. Please.

Yo.

OK, look. Ask Alan to call me back

when he's finished his shift, OK?

No, that's cool, man.

It's nice to talk to someone who's got

nothing to do with the case, you know?

No kidding. What, now?

Triple J?

Yeah. Yeah,

I've got a radio, yeah.

OK, thanks. Hey, listen to this.

We are getting a heap of

calls in response to this

email to our website about

the Schapelle Corby case.

Right now we're looking at the

theory that the baggage handlers

put the dope in Schapelle's bag.

I worked with one,

a baggage handler.

They put it in the back of

passenger bags and shipped the

marijuana between states.

Why would they do that?

Because it doesn't go through

any of the customs areas.

It's coordinated for a shiftworker

who's working

when the plane lands.

That's it! Thank you, God.

Why didn't I think of that?

Baggage handlers.

Baggage f***ing handlers.

I plead with

the Australian public and

airport staff

who know of the interference of

baggage handlers at domestic

airports to come forward now.

Qantas are putting internal

whistleblowing programs in place

to find the person who

turned this innocent girl

into an unwitting mule.

Minister, she could get the death

penalty because of you.

What if she was your daughter?

After a week of Qantas questioning

all their baggage handlers

and with

the whistleblower program in

place they've not had one report.

That's not how the public's buying

this. They know this is right.

And why would criminals

go to that much trouble?

Why not just use a Greyhound bus?

Why would a baggage handler open

someone's bag,

put on a camel's head

and then ride around the tarmac?

It's just the sh*t they do.

Minister,

75% of the Australian public now

believe that Schapelle is innocent.

When is the verdict due?

Next month.

But the prosecution recommends

their sentence tomorrow.

It could be death.

The government has

to bring her home now.

Do you have any idea

of the mountains this

government had to move to get

that prisoner up there to testify?

The f***ing legal hurdles that

had to be jumped?

It was Herculean.

If this government doesn't

co-operate

I will spend a lot of money making

sure that you lose the next election.

In answer to your earlier

question, she's not.

She's not my daughter.

Schapelle was in court today, huh?

I hear no

death penalty for Schapelle.

Prosecution

recommend no death for Schapelle.

Can you go back to your cell,

please? Just life sentence.

27 years and then

you couldn't get old.

Well, I'm not guilty so I

won't be getting a life sentence.

Can you back to your cell, please?

If you know whose drugs they are,

now is the time you must tell.

Well, it's the case

that's captured

Australia's interest like no other

since the Lindy Chamberlain trial.

At only 27, Schapelle Corby

will learn Friday next week

the decision that will

determine the course of her life.

Tonight we're trying to determine

how months of legal argument has

swayed Australian opinion

and now to how your opinions

at home have been expressed

throughout tonight's program.

The results of our phone

poll so far, as you can see,

92% have voted her not guilty.

8% have voted her guilty.

Final results of the viewers'

poll will be shown on the Today

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