GUILTY: CORBY JAILED FOR 20 YEARS
By Lindsay Murdoch and AAP
May 27, 2005 - 8:44PM
Schapelle Corby dried her tears behind the walls of Bali's Kerobokan jail tonight, vowing to fight her drug smuggling conviction and 20-year prison sentence.
In chaotic scenes at Denpasar District Court earlier, her shocked lawyers and family denounced the verdict handed down by three Indonesian judges as a miscarriage of justice. They announced an appeal would be filed as early as Monday.
But Indonesian prosecutors, who had demanded life in prison for the 27-year-old Gold Coast woman, complained she had got off too lightly.
They declared they would also go to a higher court and appeal for a tougher sentence for the crime of trying to smuggle marijuana into Bali.
"For us, a just penalty should be life for anyone who imports 4.1kg of marijuana," said chief prosecutor Ida Bagus Wiswantanu.
