Forty-one-year-old Renae Lawrence is due to fly back to Sydney after she is released from an Indonesian prison on Wednesday, having served 12 years of a 20-year sentence.
Ms Lawrence was sentenced to 20 years in jail for her role in the notorious 2005 drug smuggling operation, however, her sentence was reduced last year.
A long 12 years
April, 2005
- Lawrence and eight others are arrested at Bali airport and a local hotel over a plot to smuggle 8.3kg of heroin into Australia
- Lawrence has more than 2kg of heroin strapped to her body
September, 2005
October 2005: Renae Lawrence is taken back to Kerobokan Jail after her trial. Source: AAP
- Indonesian prosecutors say all nine Australians will be charged with offences that carry the death penalty
February, 2006
- Lawrence gets life in jail but prosecutors had argued for 20 years because she co-operated with police
- At her trial she claimed ringleader Andrew Chan threatened to kill her and her family unless she carried the drugs
- Chan and fellow ringleader Myuran Sukumaran are sentenced to death; the rest end up with life in jail
April, 2006
- Lawrence and four others appeal their life sentences; They win and get 20 years instead
- Lawrence decides to not lodge further appeals
September:
February 2006: Chan and fellow ringleader Myuran Sukumaran were sentenced to death. Source: AAP
- Others try their luck but some lose spectacularly, with some jail terms upgraded to the death penalty
- Ultimately only the two ringleaders are executed
November, 2018
- Officials in Bali confirm Lawrence will be released on November 21
- Lawrence has shaved years off her sentence through remissions for good behaviour
- She could be the only member of the Bali Nine to ever taste freedom again, with the rest to die in jail unless their cases are reviewed.
