Corby `took the fall’ for relative: [2 All-round First Edition]
John Stapleton, Paige Taylor. The Australian [Canberra, A.C.T] 16 Feb 2007: 3.
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On Monday, Jodie Power betrayed Schapelle and her sister Mercedes, telling Seven’s Today Tonight in a paid interview there was a history of drug use in the[Corby] family before Schapelle was jailed for smuggling marijuana into Bali.
“I’ll tell you something now: Schapelle Corby shouldn’t be in jail but somebody else in that family should be. That’s all I’m going to say,” she said.
Schapelle is serving a 20-year jail term in Bali’s Kerobokan jail after she was arrested carrying 4.1kg of the drug while entering Bali in October 2004.
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SCHAPELLE Corby is in jail because she took the fall for another member of her family, claims the mother of the former family friend who sparked the catfight played out on tabloid television every night this week.
On Monday, Jodie Power betrayed Schapelle and her sister Mercedes, telling Seven’s Today Tonight in a paid interview there was a history of drug use in theCorby family before Schapelle was jailed for smuggling marijuana into Bali.
The revelation drew emotional denials from Mercedes, her former friend, and triggered a ratings war between Today Tonight and Nine’s A Current Affair.
Last night, friends and enemies of the Corby sisters came forward with fresh accusations.
Ms Power’s mother, Margaret, told ACA Schapelle was innocent and predicted the truth would come out eventually.
“I’ll tell you something now: Schapelle Corby shouldn’t be in jail but somebody else in that family should be. That’s all I’m going to say,” she said.
“And I feel sorry for Schapelle and I can’t believe Schapelle’s taken the fall for a member of her family, and I’m not going to say who it is.”
Asked whether she would support Mercedes, Margaret Power replied: “Well, we won’t go there.”
Asked again, she replied: “Not in a million years.”
Margaret Power conceded Jodie had been a substance abuser and had smoked marijuana.
Today Tonight rolled out an anonymous high-school friend of Schapelle, his face obscured, to out the convicted smuggler as smoker and dealer of marijuana. “Marijuana has been a part of her life for a long time,” he said.
Schapelle is serving a 20-year jail term in Bali’s Kerobokan jail after she was arrested carrying 4.1kg of the drug while entering Bali in October 2004.
Credit: Schapelle Corby