Schappelle Re-Unites With Boyfriend

[icyfroth]

THREE months after her release from prison a smiling Schapelle Corby has rekindled her relationship with her Indonesian boyfriend and is excitedly refurbishing her family’s surfboard and swimwear shop.

The 37-year-old was spotted out and about several times this week in Kuta with Ben Panangian, the man she met in jail and who supported her when she was in her darkest hours.

The couple were affectionate and business owners around the family shop said that Corby was often at the shop with Mr Panangian.

“She always comes with her boyfriend,” one local shopkeeper said, adding the couple “looked harmonious” together this week when she saw them.

Corby, who is on parole, was with Mr Panangian at the Board Room, the business run by her sister Mercedes and brother-in-law Wayan Widyartha, in Central Kuta.

This week Corby began refurbishing the shop and playing a major role in its transformation. The bottom floor was cleared out and painted and onlookers said Corby was there overseeing renovations.

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Good to see here getting herself together.

[soul_art]

Does anyone know if Mercedes and Wayan had The Boardroom shop when Schapelle got busted?

[polksaladallie]

   

[azureline**]

IMercedes:

n 2004, we decided to take a five-month holiday to Bali, before Wayan started school on the Gold Coast. We had our little girl, Nyeleigh, by then, and felt it would be our last chance to give the two children a real taste of their dad’s culture and spend time with his family. We planned to be home by Christmas. But it didn’t work out. We didn’t get home. Instead, our lives turned to hell.

Nothing could have prepared us for the shock and trauma. It was incomprehensible. We’d been in Bali for about eight weeks when Schapelle was arrested on October 8, 2004, at Bali International Airport with 4.2kg of marijuana in her boogie-board bag.

So, I would say not?

[polksaladallie]

If not, there were lots of other shops where a piece of foam can be bought or hired for peanuts.

[soul_art]

Okay, thanks az.

[soul_art]

Yeah polks, that's the one thing that's always stuck in my mind about the whole thing.

We'll never know the whole truth but guilty or not, time for her to get on with her life and for the media to move on, too.

[polksaladallie]

Well, many, many know and have always known the truth. 

I don't like the chances of the media ever letting it go. 

[azureline**]

The only ones who "know" are Schapelle herself and the person (if there is someone else)  who placed it in the bag? Anyone else who "knows" is/must be fantasising.

[polksaladallie]

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@azureline** wrote:

The only ones who "know" are Schapelle herself and the person (if there is someone else)  who placed it in the bag? Anyone else who "knows" is/must be fantasising.

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You are joking?  Australia's law enforcement bodies and all their ancilliaries and all those who have access to them have known the truth from the beginning, and in some cases from before.