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‘Mentally Ill’ Schapelle Corby Appeals to SBY for Clemency
Made Arya Kencana | April 13, 2010

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marko1
1:08pm Apr 13, 2010

Shes not too mentally ill to realize she is in prison?.........or is she delusional from drugs?

peroblanco
6:24pm Apr 12, 2010

Aaah so she's gone mad from the manicures & pedicures (probably even facials & that famous Balinese massage) she gets while serving time in Kerobokan, eh? This is why I always tell my wife not to bother.

Valkyrie
4:40pm Apr 12, 2010

padt - "corruption" is an inborn disease. Couple it with "power" makes bad medicine. Solution? Start educating the coming generation.

padt
3:02pm Apr 12, 2010

Given the reported disgusting, dirty, brutal, unsanitary and corrupt conditions that exist in Indonesian prisons endured by the majority of prisoners, not counting the corrupt politicians/policemen/military/business men (or women!) with contacts in high places - one law for one, another law for others, - it is no wonder this woman has gone bonkers.

I have no idea whether she is guilty or not. All I know is that she, like every other person in an Indonesian jail - including unfortunately, many children (shame on this country!) - has a right to conditions that do not reduce her dignity as a human being. A prison should be a place of humanitarian reform - not a sadistic, degrading place run by bullies and corrupt amateurs who themselves quite evidently have immense psycholoigical problems.

Michelle Corby may well have gone insane. But many of the people who are administering the prison system were mad, bad and dangerous to know long before she took up residence.

And a lot of their friends are running around outside the walls, running this country ....into the ground.

When is this country going to stop being run by corrupt amateurs.

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Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has taken the necessary legal steps to formally appeal to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for clemency and release from prison or for a reduction of her sentence for humanitarian reasons because she is mentally ill.

Corby’s appeal claims that she has become insane during her time at Kerobokan Prison in Bali.

The former beauty therapist, an Australian citizen, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after she was arrested at Denpasar’s Ngurah Rai Airport in October 2004 carrying 4.1 kilograms of marijuana.

“The papers have been sent off [to the Supreme Court] on March 31,” said Gede Ketut Rantam, a court clerk at the Denpasar District Court.

He said the Supreme Court would forward the documentation to Yudhoyono.

“Considering that there is a formal criminal sentence, the convict has requested clemency from the Indonesian president in the form of a reduction in sentence, or release from jail,” said the appeal, which was forwarded by Corby through her lawyer, Iskandar Nawing. Last August, a psychiatrist reported that Corby’s mental health was deteriorating.

A decision from Yudhoyono could take many months.

Aside from documentation of rulings issued in the case, letters from two separate psychiatrists, one from Denny Thong, who examined Corby for a five-day period last May, were attached to the request for clemency.

Denny’s letter states that Corby is suffering from severe depression and is showing symptoms of psychosis, and recommends that she be moved to an environment which could provide her with proper, regulated medication in order to deal with her condition. Another psychiatric examination by Jonathan Phillips was conducted on Aug. 13, 2009.

Phillips again evaluated Corby during a visit to her prison in Bali this month and warned that her mental health was rapidly deteriorating.

“She is lost in her own bewildering world where fantasy, hallucinations and bizarre ideas dominate her mind,” Phillips said, according to a report in New Idea magazine.

Phillips, a former president of the Psychiatrist’s Guild of Australia and New Zealand, said Corby was “hanging by a thread” and needed to be moved.