The bizarre behaviour, apparently a reaction to being observed by a small contingent of Australian journalists, drew an immediate response from her parole officers who ordered her to remove the helmet or risk having her parole revoked.
The 36-year-old arrived at the parole office on a motorcycle behind her brother-in-law and parole guarantor, Wayan Widyartha, husband of her sister Mercedes Corby. But when she entered the offices she refused to remove the helmet even when talking to officials. Instead, she initially sat in the corner with her helmet on trying to shield herself behind a counter before finally entering another office with her parole officer and drawing closed the curtains.
“I will not start until you take off your helmet,” the parole officer Putu Andiyani told Corby. “We can revoke your parole.”
The meeting was a regular monthly counselling session conducted with all parolees from the Indonesian justice system. At the end of the session, Corby was crying.
“I reminded her that she shall not commit any crime and to be careful in making friends,” Ms Andiyani told reporters.
“I always say this to every convicted person undergoing parole.”
Corby told her counsellor that she would soon begin work as an assistant in her brother-in-law’s Kuta surf shop.
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