Comments on: Robyn Tampoe, Schapelle Corby’s solicitor

By: Malcolm Thorne

Malcolm Thorne — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:10:31 +0000

Good article Mr Warne. You are of course 100% correct, but that that alone isn’t going to help Schapelle Corby at this point.

I cannot find a word harsh enough to describe Tampoe.

I just hope that someone soon helps this poor poor woman. It is staggering that Australia allows her to fester in that cell.

By: T Bker

T Bker — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:36:16 +0000

Thanks for this article. I am a friend of Schapelle’s and I know how her and her family are suffering. Tampoe is a vindictive person who is angry that he was sacked.

Tampoe saying he fabricated the defence is just stupid. Is he also going to claim that he fabricated the arrest of baggage handlers for moving drugs on the same day Schapelle left Sydney for Bali? Is he also saying he fabricated the John Wheeler report and the AFP investigation operation Mocha that targeted baggage handlers smuggling drugs during 2004 and early 2005.

Tampoe used this defence as the evidence was there that Baggage handlers were involved in moving drugs through airports. Schapelle is innocent and some form of defence had to be used to fight for her freedom and during that time her life.

Bottom line is that Schapelle did not get a fair trial. If she had then she would not be sitting in that dump today.

By: Shayna

Shayna — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:16:19 +0000

Mr. Warne:
Isn’t there something someone can do for Ms. Corby? Your very level-headed analysis of this singular aspect of the case indicates to me that not all of Australia has gone mad and turned against her. I feel helpless here in the U.S., where I’d like to believe the American government wouldn’t give up on me the way the Australian government seems to have given up on Corby. She was not proven guilty. Doesn’t that count for anything?

By: Jacqui

Jacqui — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:23:17 +0000

Thank you for this article. I will show this to the next person who claims that Schapelle is guilty without a doubt “because her lawyer fabricated her defence.”
How ridiculous. There is so much reasonable doubt in this case it would be laughable if it wasn’t so tragic.
This girl has been crucified by the Australian media. They don’t stop to consider that they are causing her real harm. They treat her like she is a cartoon character, but this is a real person in a dire situation.
The media is forever throwing mud at her deceased father, or paying people to fabricate stories. It must stop.
I hope that more lawyers will speak out in support of Schapelle Corby.

By: Janet L

Janet L — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:30:04 +0000

Tampoe and the media are crucifying this woman. The case was outrageous (see link). And 20 years? Come on…. that wasn’t a judicial process, it was politics.

Since then the Australian media have basically killed her: a slow death in a hell hole. Giving time to the likes of Tampoe, and reporting it the way they have: what words can describe that? Evil? Pretty close.

Is anyone every going to help her? Doesn’t look like it. I guess some people have no compassion and no soul.