Bali Nine Prisoner Released After 12 Years in Indonesian Jail

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Bali Nine Prisoner Released After 12 Years in Indonesian Jail

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Bali Nine prisoner Renae Lawrence to be released after 12 years in jail
Australian Associated Press, Mon 12 Nov 2018 23.29 GMT
The father of Bali Nine drug smuggler Renae Lawrence hopes she’ll be left alone to rebuild her life when she returns home next week after 12 years in Indonesian jails.

Lawrence’s father says he’s known for some time that his daughter would be released later this month, after a series of reductions to her 20-year jail term for heroin smuggling.

“We knew ages ago she was getting out on the 21st. She just wants to come home and get on with her life. We hope everyone respects her wishes,” Bob Lawrence told the Newcastle Herald.

Officials in Bali’s corrections division have confirmed the 41-year-old will be released from prison that day, before being deported to Australia.

Lawrence was a member of the Bali Nine group, caught trying to smuggle more than 8kg of heroin from the Indonesian island to Australia in April 2005.

When she was arrested at Bali’s airport, she had 2.6kg of heroin strapped to her back and legs. She was sentenced to 20 years in jail, however her sentence was reduced last year.

The Bali Nine ringleaders, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, were executed by firing squad in 2015.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... rs-in-jail
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