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09-06-2006, 09:43 AM
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The Australian federal government will not comment on reports four more of the Bali nine drug mules have been handed death sentences.
A spokesman for Attorney-general Philip Ruddock told AAP the government did not comment on ongoing court cases.
Fairfax newspapers on Wednesday reported Indonesia's Supreme Court had issued new, unexpected verdicts on four of the nine Australians involved in the case where the group tried to smuggle heroin from Bali to Australia in April last year.
The court imposed the new death sentences on 20-year-old Scott Rush, Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen, 23, Si Yi Chen, 21, and the youngest of the group, 19-year-old Matthew Norman, the papers said.
None of the nine, their families or their lawyers have been officially informed of the new sentences, which Fairfax uncovered in a search of Supreme Court records in Jakarta and confirmed with court authorities.
The Supreme Court upheld convictions of the four for attempting to courier heroin from Bali to Australia in April last year, but annulled a previous High Court decision to grant lighter sentences and imposed the death penalty.
The new death sentences were unexpected as prosecutors, who had also appealed the 20-year terms faced by most of the nine, had called for them to be upgraded to life imprisonment.
The sentences mean at least six of the Australian heroin smugglers now face execution, with Andrew Chan, 22, and Myuran Sukumaran, 25, already facing the death penalty.
Verdicts in the appeals of Michael Czugaj and Martin Stephens are pending, and Renae Lawrence did not lodge a further appeal to her 20-year sentence.
No reasons for the tougher sentences were available and were unlikely to be published for at least a month, Fairfax said.
TVNZ
I wonder if thease people would have not been caught would they have worried about the effect that the Heroin they smuggked had on the people that used it.Of course not they would have just thought about the enourmous profit that they made.
In most Asian countries it is law that people trafficing/smuggling drugs face a death sentance,and if thease people then decide to break the law then they deserve whatever punnishment the court rules decide......However bad it seems ....
The Australian federal government will not comment on reports four more of the Bali nine drug mules have been handed death sentences.
A spokesman for Attorney-general Philip Ruddock told AAP the government did not comment on ongoing court cases.
Fairfax newspapers on Wednesday reported Indonesia's Supreme Court had issued new, unexpected verdicts on four of the nine Australians involved in the case where the group tried to smuggle heroin from Bali to Australia in April last year.
The court imposed the new death sentences on 20-year-old Scott Rush, Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen, 23, Si Yi Chen, 21, and the youngest of the group, 19-year-old Matthew Norman, the papers said.
None of the nine, their families or their lawyers have been officially informed of the new sentences, which Fairfax uncovered in a search of Supreme Court records in Jakarta and confirmed with court authorities.
The Supreme Court upheld convictions of the four for attempting to courier heroin from Bali to Australia in April last year, but annulled a previous High Court decision to grant lighter sentences and imposed the death penalty.
The new death sentences were unexpected as prosecutors, who had also appealed the 20-year terms faced by most of the nine, had called for them to be upgraded to life imprisonment.
The sentences mean at least six of the Australian heroin smugglers now face execution, with Andrew Chan, 22, and Myuran Sukumaran, 25, already facing the death penalty.
Verdicts in the appeals of Michael Czugaj and Martin Stephens are pending, and Renae Lawrence did not lodge a further appeal to her 20-year sentence.
No reasons for the tougher sentences were available and were unlikely to be published for at least a month, Fairfax said.
TVNZ
I wonder if thease people would have not been caught would they have worried about the effect that the Heroin they smuggked had on the people that used it.Of course not they would have just thought about the enourmous profit that they made.
In most Asian countries it is law that people trafficing/smuggling drugs face a death sentance,and if thease people then decide to break the law then they deserve whatever punnishment the court rules decide......However bad it seems ....