It was meant to be a holiday. A two-week break to a tropical paradise to celebrate a sister’s birthday. But for Schapelle Corby it ended up a waking nightmare. She was arrested at Denpasar airport after 4.2 kilograms of marijuana were found in her boogie board bag. Schapelle had become the real-life victim of every traveller’s darkest fear - drugs had been placed in her bag after she checked it in. Though completely innocent, she was forced to face the consequences of someone else’s crime in a country where the penalties for drug smuggling are among the harshest in the world.
Her trial and conviction became one of the biggest stories of the decade in Australia, and the entire nation watched in horror as she was sentenced to twenty years in jail. Yet despite the huge media coverage, the one voice we never properly heard was Schapelle’s until now.
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