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Renae, a member of the so-called Bali Nine, called the prison home for eight years, from 2005, when she was convicted of heroin trafficking, to November 2013 when she was relocated to another Indonesian facility. The Weekly’s news editor Bryce Corbett travelled to Kerobokan to interview Renae last year. During their hour-long meeting, Renae detailed […]

Inside Kerobokan Prison, Schapelle Corby has been sitting alone in a holding room waiting a little longer for her imminent release. Outside, a giant media scrum – growing larger every hour – is ready to capture her first moments of freedom in nearly a decade but the details of her release remain sketchy. Schapelle’s sister […]

As Schapelle Corby prepares for release after almost 10 years in prison, we look back at the rollercoaster ride that began back in October 2004.

Pulling up to the prison on a motorbike driven by her husband Wayan, Mercedes was mobbed by the Australian media contingent which has been lying in wait for three days. Mercedes made no comment as she pushed her way through the media to enter the prison. but gave a short statement on her way out […]

The Olympics is not only an exhibition of the best athletes in the world - in the past it has been a display of some of the worst outfits as well.

Senior prosecutor Mark Tedeschi described Gittany – who threw his fiancée Lisa Harnum off the balcony of their luxury Sydney apartment – as a “cold” and “calculated” killer. Tedeschi recommended Gittany be locked up for a minimum of 20 years without parole because his complete “lack of remorse” proved he could not be rehabilitated. Defence […]

Rumours of an affair between Bill Clinton and Liz Hurley have been quashed, but the fascination with their respective love lives will never die.

Kerry Smith-Douglas made a bizarre appearance on The Today Show this morning to talk about her client Corby’s impending release. When host Karl Stefanovic asked how Corby would celebrate freedom after nearly a decade in Bali’s notorious Kerobokan Prison, Smith-Douglas said she would probably “roll up a big marijuana joint the size of a cigar […]

The model and businesswoman was embroiled in a sex scandal overnight when gossip website RadarOnline published an old recording of her ex-boyfriend Tom Sizemore claiming he had set her up with Clinton in 1998. “Ludicrously silly stories about me and Bill Clinton,” Hurley tweeted this morning. “Totally untrue. In the hands of my lawyers. Yawn.” […]

In what has been described as a “shock move”, the Crown prosecution introduced a friend of Miss Harnum to give evidence at Gittany’s sentence hearing in Darlinghurst today. The woman, who knew Miss Harnum from beauty college and had previously been in an abusive relationship, only came forward after the prosecution closed its case last […]