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Schapelle Corby paranoid, clutching doll in Kerobokan jail |
By Cindy Wockner and Kormang Suriadi -
The Daily Telegraph -
May 25, 2009
Deteriorating ... Schapelle Corby is suffering depression while in an Indonesian jail. Picture: Lukman S Bintoro
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SCHAPELLE Corby has become paranoid, unkempt and has been seen carrying a doll about her prison cell as her mental condition deteriorates.
Her mother, Rosleigh Rose, has flown from Australia to Bali to be with her daughter - the best medicine the convicted drug smuggler can have, according to her doctor.
The 31-year-old was taken from Kerobokan jail, where she is serving a 20-year sentence, to Denpasar's police hospital late on Friday and is being treated by a private psychiatrist arranged by her family.
Dr Danny Tong visited Corby for 15 minutes yesterday and said that while her condition was improving she was "very depressed" and was on medication, including anti-depressants.
"Her mother is here. This is the best medicine for anybody in the world," he said.
Ms Rose spent the night in the hospital on Saturday and was with Corby again yesterday, as was Corby's sister Mercedes and her children.
Dr Tong said Corby needed to be in a psychiatric hospital in the more secluded hill town of Bangli because she was suffering a "mental problem" and needed a change of environment.
However, he was uncertain if Indonesian authorities would allow this.
A similar request was denied last year around the time Corby spent two weeks in hospital suffering severe depression.
Dr Tong said Corby was brought to hospital because she had become "very illogical".
Asked what Corby needed to make her better, he said: "To be set free, I think."
Those who have seen Corby say she looks confused, is often teary and at one stage was paranoid about the presence of police at the hospital. Corby was also seen walking around carrying a doll.
"According to her cellmates she doesn't sleep at night," Kerobokan jail doctor Agung Hartawan said. "Sometimes she is blank. Sometimes she just hangs around the cell, sometimes she forgets about things. Sometimes she forgets to look after herself."
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Schapelle Corby release hopes |
May 27, 2009
AS Schapelle Corby today begins her fourth year of a 20-year sentence for smuggling marijuana into Bali, there are fresh moves to bring the Gold Coast woman home.
Corby's Northern Territory uncle said yesterday the Federal Government had agreed to support her plea for clemency.
Shun Hatton said the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade had given the family a letter for Corby to sign. The letter contains a formal request for the Federal Government to make the application on her behalf.
"I have been told they can get around the requirement for her to admit her guilt," said Mr Hatton.
"We have been asking about this for more than a year."
However, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it was not aware of any application for a presidential pardon.
Corby has maintained her innocence and has refused to lodge a presidential plea for clemency because it would require an admission of guilt.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a press release four years ago -- as Opposition foreign affairs spokesman -- calling on the then Howard government to apply for a presidential pardon.
"Four years ago today Kevin Rudd said he wanted Schapelle to get clemency, but four years on he hadn't done anything," said Mr Hatton.
"We now have approval in principle that the Australian Government will apply for clemency."
Corby is being treated for depression in the police hospital at Denpasar's police headquarters.
She was taken there on Friday after her condition deteriorated late last week.
It was the second time in a year that Corby had been taken to hospital suffering from depression.
Yesterday it was clear her time in an Indon-esian jail cell had taken a heavy toll on the 31-year-old Gold Coast woman.
Corby slept with her head on her mother's lap and cuddled a teddy bear as she lay on newspapers on the floor.
Corby, her hair in pigtails, has been seen carrying the teddy around the hospital with her for the past few days.
One witness told of her being confused on Monday night after trying to enter the wrong hospital room and having to be guided back to her room by her mother.
Corby's psychiatrist says she needs specialist treatment which is not available at the hospital.
She has been on medication since her admission to hospital last June for two weeks but is believed to have recently stopped taking the proper amounts, resulting in a further downward spiral of her mental condition.
Her fiercely protective mother, Rosleigh Rose, flew from Australia to be with her daughter and sleeps each night in the hospital room with Corby.
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