(27 Jun 2024)
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Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia – 27 June 2024
1. Australian defendant Troy Smith leaving detention car handcuffed and walking into the temporary detention room at the Denpasar district court
2. Smith in the detention room after the officer removed the handcuffs
3. Smith’s consultant lawyer John McLeod standing outside the detention room, Smith approached from behind the bars and talked to him
4. Close of Smith talking
5. Judge opens the hearing at Denpasar district court by banging the gavel
6. Smith at the defendant’s chair listening
7. Various of the prosecutor reading the sentence of demand
8. Various of Smith talking with his lawyer after hearing the prosecutor’s demands
9. End of trial, judge banging the gavel
10. The officer places handcuffs on Smith and leaves
11. SOUNDBITE (English) John McLeod, Smith’s consultant lawyer:
"We won’t be appealing, I don’t think, but that’s up my legal team. It is what it is. If the drug department had said six months obviously we’re going to try and push for that."
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Ida Bagus Gumilang Galih Sakti, Lawyer:
"I still have another chance to wait for judge’s decision but I really hope if the decision is going to be less than 8 months but my focus for our client is instead of our client staying in the jail, if he can cure his addiction in rehabilitation I’m already happy with that."
13. Sign of Denpasar district court class 1A
14. Exterior of Denpasar District Court
STORYLINE:
Indonesian prosecutors on Thursday demanded an 8-month medical rehabilitation for an Australian man accused of possessing methamphetamine on the tourist island of Bali.
Troy Andrew Smith, from Port Lincoln in South Australia, was arrested April 30 after police raided his hotel in a popular tourist spot near Kuta beach. Police seized 3.15 grams (0.1 ounce) of crystal methamphetamine inside a toothpaste container from his room. Police found a further 0.4 gram of the drug, along with a ‘bong’ and a lighter at his desk drawer.
The arrest followed a tip that Smith had received a suspicious package containing toothpaste by mail from Australia. Under Indonesia’s tough drug laws, he faces up to 12 years in prison if found guilty.
Authorities reduced the initial charge of drug trafficking, which carries a possible death penalty, to the less serious charge of drug use after a police drug assessment team determined he was a drug user.
During the trial that began two weeks ago, the 49-year-old accountant told the court that he ordered the drugs from a man in Australia three weeks before his arrest, and he regretted his actions and apologized.
He said that he had used meth routinely on a daily basis to reduce depression and anxiety since 2020.
At a sentencing demand hearing on Thursday, lead prosecutor Isa Ulinnuha said in Denpasar District Court that although Smith “violated anti-narcotics laws and his action was contrary to the government’s program in eradicating narcotics,” he surprisingly showed leniency because Smith repeatedly expressed remorse and bought the drugs for personal use.
“He was not involved in illicit narcotics trafficking and was a drug user in the moderate category,” Ulinnuha told the court, “Therefore, we demanded that he undergo inpatient medical rehabilitation for eight months.”
The panel of three judges adjourned the trial until July 4 for a verdict.
Smith’s Australian legal consultant, John McLeod, said his legal team had been tried to push for a six-month medical rehabilitation sentence rather than a prison term.
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