New evidence given to Corby's lawyers
A note by a security official who died mysteriously after alleging drug-running at Sydney Airport has been delivered to lawyers for Schapelle Corby, according to a Sunday newspaper.
The Sunday Telegraph says the lawyers claim the note is evidence supporting Corby's plea that she is an innocent victim of criminal networks using airports for drug trafficking.
Corby, 27, is being held in a Bali jail awaiting the outcome of her trial on charges that she smuggled 4.1kg of marijuana into Denpasar airport last October.
She denies the charges, which could attract the death penalty, and claims the drugs were planted in her unlocked body-board bag, possibly by a baggage handler involved in an Australian drug ring.
The note's author, former Australian Protective Services officer Gary Lee-Rogers, was found dead in his Queanbeyan flat in October 2002.
An autopsy was unable to ascertain the cause of death, but Mr Lee-Rogers' family and whistle-blowers believe he was murdered after allegedly uncovering corruption in the APS's operations at the airport, the Sunday Telegraph says.
Lawyers for the Gold Coast beautician told the paper they intended to use this latest information in final submissions to the court.
The paper says that in emails to friends, Mr Lee-Rogers predicted he would be killed because of what he had allegedly discovered, and said his death would be covered up as a suicide.
