Bali Nine convicted drug smuggler Renae Lawrence has called on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to help the remaining five members serving life sentences when he meets Indonesian President Joko Widodo this week | JennieDuke
Bali Nine convicted drug smuggler Renae Lawrence has called on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to help the remaining five members serving life sentences when he meets Indonesian President Joko Widodo in Canberra this week.after more than 12 years behind bars for drug trafficking, spoke to media in Canberra on Sunday afternoon for the first time since her release and issued a plea to the Australian government.
Visibly nervous, she apologised to Mr Joko and the Indonesian people, saying she acknowledged that trying to smuggle more than eight kilograms of heroin from Bali to Australia was wrong and an act of "stupidity".Fellow Bali Nine member Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen died of stomach cancer in 2018 and Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were executed in 2015.Renae Lawrence
The other five members – Matthew Norman, Michael Czugaj, Scott Rush, Martin Stephens and Si Yi Chen –remain in prisons in Bali and Java, Ms Lawrence said, with the youngest of the group aged 18 when they were arrested in 2005. The men have all been given whole-of-life sentences.Ms Lawrence speaks during a press conference in Canberra on Sunday.
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