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JUDGES in Bali have agreed to reopen the drug-smuggling case against Schapelle Corby to hear new evidence from up to thirty witnesses. The chief judge of Bali's High Court, Made Lingga, said he would allow Corby's lawyers to present new witnesses backing the former beauty therapy student's claims she did not know about 4.1 kilograms of marijuana found in her luggage at Bali airport last year. One of the witnesses was said to be a person already in custody who had admitted owning the marijuana stash. "The possibility of freedom is there if the alibi is true," Lingga said....

SCHAPELLE Corby's mother last night called on her jailed daughter's self-appointed white knight, Gold Coast mobile phone entrepreneur Ron Bakir, to get out of her daughter's life. Rosleigh Rose said Mr Bakir's "meddling" was partly to blame for her daughter's 20-year sentence for drug-smuggling and was angry at demands for $500,000 in expenses he has claimed to have made. "We didn't ask him to come on board, we didn't know him from a bar of soap, and now it seems like he's trying to profit from Schapelle's misery," Ms Rose said. She spoke on the eve of a Bulletin magazine...

AUSTRALIAN Federal Police are investigating a plan to recruit ex-soldiers to break Schapelle Corby out of jail in Bali. A South Australian man is offering to pay crack ex-soldiers for weapons, false passports and expertise to bust Corby out of Indonesia and spirit her away to a secret location. The man, Mark Streater, says he has the resources to fund the operation and has already secured recruits. Mr Streater said the operation was "100 per cent do-able" and insisted it was genuine break-out plan. "I have no doubt someone will get her out of the country," he said. An...