Mercedes Corby wins
Peter Black’s Freedom to Differ:
Mercedes Corby has won her defamation against Today Tonight:
Mercedes Corby has won her defamation case against Channel
Seven.
Corby, sister of Schapelle Corby - jailed for attempting to
smuggle marijuana into Bali in 2004 - had claimed that she was
grossly defamed in the Today Tonight programs.
The claims were that she had asked her then best friend, Jodie
Power, to smuggle drugs into Bali; that she had confessed, herself,
to smuggling marijuana; that she was guilty of smuggling marijuana;
that she was knowingly involved in Schapelle Corby’s smuggling and
that she had possessed marijuana.
Ms Corby further complained that the program conveyed the
meaning that she was a threat to the safety of Ms Power, who had
made strong claims against her and the Corby family in the
television programs and that Ms Corby had denied Schapelle Corby’s
lawyers the chance to prove Schapelle’s innocence.
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