As I’ve said before, I strongly suspect at least two of the nine will be sentenced to death. It certainly doesn’t augur well that the prosecution was pushing for twenty years for these two but the judge gave them life.
The spooky thing is that the father of one of the pair sentenced today, Scot Rush, was aware that his son may have been up to no good and tipped off the Oz federales before his son left Australia under a promise they would stop hm leaving the country.
[quote]“I was informed at 1.30 in the morning that Scott would be spoken to and asked not to board the flight to Bali,” he said.
“It wasn’t until about mid-morning that I received a call from Bob in a distressed tone in his voice. He said: ‘Mate, we could not stop him. They have let him go through and he is on his way to Bali’.”
Mrs Rush said her son had been abandoned by Australian authorities and left to face Indonesia’s tough judicial system.
“I feel very let down by our Australian Federal Police,” she said.
“We tried to lawfully stop our son leaving the country. It wasn’t done and now we have got this happening and it is just a nightmare.”
Mr Meyers said he was angry about the way the Rushes had been treated.
“As far as Lee and Christine are concerned, it has been absolute hell for them,” he said.
“It’s the AFP that have got blood on their hands. Nobody else.”
Several of the Bali Nine tried to take legal action against the federal government and the AFP, saying information had been knowingly handed to Indonesians, potentially exposing the group to the death penalty.
Last month, the Federal Court threw out the case but defence lawyer Colin McDonald questions the AFP’s motives.
“It’s hard to make operational sense of what did occur,” he said.
"If it was to catch the big guys, that didn’t happen.[/quote]
Obviously they are stupid and guilty, but it does smack of death by proxy by the Australian federal police.
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