CORBY GIVEN 10 DAYS TO FIND AIRPORT CCTV

CONVICTED drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has been given 10 days to
produce closed circuit television footage from Sydney airport, which
her lawyers hope will overturn her conviction for importing 4.1 kg of
marijuana to Indonesia.

The Gold Coast beauty student appeared in Denpasar District court
today for the first time since being sentenced to 20 years' jail on
May 27 last year.

She was launching a judicial review of her case, which after being
heard in Bali will be considered by the Indonesian Supreme Court in
Jakarta.

Corby lawyer Erwin Siregar today produced a letter from Australian
justice minister Chris Ellison confirming security cameras at Sydney
airport had been working on October 8, 2004, when the Gold coast
beauty student's boogie board bag passed through the luggage handling
area.

However, the letter does not state whether tapes from the cameras
still exist or whether they show anything that would prove Corby's
innocence.

Mr Siregar said he would ask Senator Ellison for a copy of the tapes
but said he was confident of the case's success regardless of the
outcome of that request.

Balinese Judge I Nyoman Gede Wirya appeared to treat Corby far more
generously today than did the Sumatran judge who convicted her, Lynton
Sirait.

Judge Wirya overruled all objections from the prosecution, including
that Corby's lawyers should not be able to produce a legal academic to
explain that her conviction for smuggling was incorrect and should at
most have been a conviction for possession of marijuana.

That conviction would have carried a penalty of only a few years,
which would see Corby released from jail within the next year or two
given remissions for good behaviour.