It has been a while since I wrote my last (and only) entry to date on Schapelle’s plight in an Indonesian prison. I decided to take a look around the net and see what people were writing, what the latest news was and if anyone had anything interesting to report.

The biggest story to attract my attention was that of Indonesia -based Australian Nicholas Morley who has designed a controversial t-shirt attacking Schapelle Corby and the Bali economy. The t-shirt, depicted here in the image reads “Four kilo anti-hero” and retails for $79. Also printed on the shirt, in much smaller writing, are the words, “Schapelle Corby is guilty and has cost Bali millions of dollars in lost revenue”. Sarah Grant also writes a piece in the Sunday Telegraph.

A significant proportion of the profits from the sale of the shirt will go to the Jodie O’Shea Orphanage in Bali despite British-born Alison Chambers, who runs the orphanage, having never seen the garment. She also proclaims she was unaware that the shirt’s message clearly relates to Schapelle.

There’s no doubt that the orphanage does great things for young children and I guess it’s just a case of a line and has it been crossed in this case? I have to say I am a Corby supporter from afar – I’ve never met her or know much about her as a person – I guess I try to see the good in people and believe in her innocence.

A law exists in the UK and Australia that criminals cannot profit from their crime, surely there must be something written that a company or individual cannot profit from said criminal in a blatant form of jumping on the bandwagon?

It is quite clear that the Bali tourist industry has been severely hit since the Corby case, I for one know at least 15 people who have been to Bali and will never travel there again. The beneficiary in this case, or a portion, the orphanage is a good one – I just wish there was another way to gain some much needed cash boost. Like they say “there’s no such thing as bad publicity”.