The same people who thought Lindy Chamberlain killed her baby also believe that Schapelle Corby is guilty of trying to smuggle 4.1kg of marijuana into Bali. They have the same mind set – “Oh yeah, the dingo did it, ha ha” and “Everyone knows that Corby’s guilty”. They have no sympathy for this young woman who has always maintained her innocence and spent seven long years in Kerobokan prison.
Now a Fairfax journalist Eamonn Duff has written a book that suggests it was Corby’s own father who put the cannabis in her boogie board bag. Duff hopes to cash in on the back of Corby’s plight knowing full very well that it will damage her hope of leniency from the Indonesian authorities and her dreams of ever coming home.
Duff tries to justify his case that her father was the villain who used his daughter to move the drugs but in reality, he doesn't know if she’s innocent or not because he actually says so. He wrote “Whether Schapelle Corby knew she was carrying the drugs is not clear”. But that didn’t stop him from writing a book full of his personal speculations not grounded in facts. He says he has not been able to put his claims directly to Corby.
I’ve read Corby’s book and believe she’s innocent and hope that people will see this journalist for what he really is - an unprincipled opportunist trying to make a buck out of a very sad situation.
