Schapelle bunkers down as Mercedes revs up ahead of deportation Flat Corby clears final Bali medical
SCHAPELLE Corby spent her final day in Bali holed up inside her Kuta home as her sister Mercedes lashed out at the media and a jail doctor declared her healthy and well ahead of today’s release and deportation.
Schapelle’s face was flat and expressionless and she showed no emotion as a parole officer asked if she was excited to be finally going home.
As Kuta police chief Wayan Sumara inspected the lane outside the home’s fence, Mercedes Corby shouted at media from inside: “Get away from our house”, “stop perving” and “get the cameras out please”.
Never has a criminal’s deportation here consumed so many resources, prompted so many meetings of officials and caused so much drama or as senior officials describe it, a headache.
There is no doubt that when Corby gets on her flight to- night, headed to Brisbane, a great many officials will happily wave her goodbye and breathe a sigh of relief.
Kerobokan jail doctor Agung Hartawan, together with the jail clinic nurse Rusmawati and parole officer Ketut Sukiati spent about 30 minutes inside the Corby home, emerging to say that Schapelle was healthy and well. She did not want a full medical, telling them she was healthy.
Corby was required, under regulations, to undergo a medical check before she leaves Bali.
Dr Hartawan said that Corbymade no response when asked if she was happy about going home.
“Her expression was flat. When the parole officer said, you must be happy about going home tomorrow, Corby didn’t give any response. Only Mercedes was smiling, Corby kept a flat expression,” Dr Hartawan said. “She is fine. healthy. she is well,” he said. “She can run, walk, eat, so, no problem,” “We only see her physical condition, monitoring her. “She said to us, You can see that I am healthy. No problem at all. No need for a medical test. She looked fine, still the same as I saw her the last time at the jail.” He last saw Corby at Kerobokan prison in February 2014 when she underwent a medical test before being granted parole. He said when they arrived Corby shook the doctor’s hand and kissed the cheek of his nurse, Rusmawati. She was not covering her face for the 30minute meeting as she has done previously when officials visited. “She also said that before, she can freely go to the beach and out but now, at least for the last three weeks, she could not come out from the house,” Dr Hartawan said.
“Too many media. I do not feel comfortable,” Corby said to Dr Hartawan.
He said that when he asked Corby where she would fly, she said: “Can go to Perth, can go to Brisbane, or wherever.”
As officials held a final round of meetings yesterday, police chief Sumara said Kuta was a tourist precinct and he needed to ensure the area was secure.
Today Corby is required to attend at the Parole Board in Denpasar, where she will sign her parole for the final time before she is taken into Immigration custody and spirited away to Bali’s international airport.
Here she will be black- listed from returning to Indonesia and then put on her evening flight direct to Brisbane.