Spicer as you might know is a well-respected news presenter in Australia, well at least according to The Fordham Company, that is until she was e-boned by Network Ten in 2006. I think these days she moonlight for Sky News, not too certain because sometimes you see her sometimes you don't, so you are welcome to chime in on this.
Sorry, where was I?
Oh yes, bring Corby home.
I will leave you to peruse Spicer's article in the Daily Telegraph as hyperlinked above but I thought Spicer was missing the point when she allude that Corby's fate can be intervened for the better simply through money and politics, as in examples of Michelle Leslie and Annice Smoel.
First of all, Michelle Leslie was not convicted as a drug-trafficker but as a drug user, for which she was given a three-month jail sentence but due to the three months already spent in custody, was freed and deported immediately. Shapelle Corby has been convicted as a drug-trafficker. Big difference. On the other hand Annice Smoel was convicted of stealing and sentenced to six-month jail term but was released when she pleaded guilty in court. Sure, there was the intervention of the Governor of Phuket, but Smoel would not have been freed if she had not pleaded guilty in court.
Will Corby plead guilty? Don't think so.
So I don't know. Is it time to bring Corby home now that she is wearing pig-tails and clutching dolls? Well I think we should think about Fred Bowers when we consider the Corby-back-home initiative. Fred if you must know is the famous old fogey who break-danced into a semi-final on Britain's Got Talent, while on a disability pension. Not everything is what it seems.
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