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03-13-2006, 11:43 PM
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Trialling time ... Michelle Leslie in the spotlight.
EXPLOSIVE documents have emerged showing accused Bali drug model Michelle Leslie may have been the victim of an elaborate set-up.
The previously unseen statements - which formed part of the Indonesian police case against her - clearly show she returned a negative urine test just hours after being arrested on ecstasy charges.
A second blood and urine test taken as she languished in a jail cell five days later inexplicably found high levels of MDMA - the chemical compound in ecstasy - in her system.
Leslie was released last November after spending three months in a Bali jail. She has always denied ownership of the ecstasy tablets found in her bag.
Yesterday, Leslie's father Albert said the blood and urine samples were contaminated and his daughter had been framed from the start.
"She was sitting there and witnessed (police) pouring the (ecstasy) powder into her sample. It was a set-up," Mr Leslie said.
Everybody we know has no doubt Michelle was framed. It's a small minority that believe she was guilty and unfortunately they are the people who always get themselves heard."
Police documents show Leslie, 24, was ordered to take a urine test seven hours after being arrested for possession of ecstasy outside a Bali dance party.
The first test at the Polda police headquarters in Denpasar returned a negative result.
Leslie was held in custody before undergoing a second test on August 25, 2005. On that occasion her urine and blood samples tested positive to MDMA.
There has been no explanation from Indonesian authorities about how ecstasy found its way into her blood while she was sharing a jail cell with 20 other women.
The drug test discrepancy emerged as Leslie's lawyer, Ross Hill, and confidante Sean Mulcahy told New Idea she lived in fear of being raped or killed during her three-month prison ordeal.
Mr Hill and Mr Mulcahy told New Idea police demanded $US400,000 in bribes once they realised her boyfriend, Scott Sutton, was linked to the Suttons Holden empire.
Leslie, who has struggled to resurrect her once stellar modelling career since being released from Bali's Kerobokan jail, is trying to renew a US visa that would allow her to work overseas.
Albert Leslie said yesterday he hoped the emergence of the full story of her arrest would help to clear his daughter's name.
Mr Leslie said his daughter was unfairly compared to Schapelle Corby and the Bali Nine, adding: "It was a mistake to lump all these kids into the same basket."
Mr Leslie said he was deeply disappointed by the Federal Government's attitude to his daughter and asked for an apology.
News.au
Trialling time ... Michelle Leslie in the spotlight.
EXPLOSIVE documents have emerged showing accused Bali drug model Michelle Leslie may have been the victim of an elaborate set-up.
The previously unseen statements - which formed part of the Indonesian police case against her - clearly show she returned a negative urine test just hours after being arrested on ecstasy charges.
A second blood and urine test taken as she languished in a jail cell five days later inexplicably found high levels of MDMA - the chemical compound in ecstasy - in her system.
Leslie was released last November after spending three months in a Bali jail. She has always denied ownership of the ecstasy tablets found in her bag.
Yesterday, Leslie's father Albert said the blood and urine samples were contaminated and his daughter had been framed from the start.
"She was sitting there and witnessed (police) pouring the (ecstasy) powder into her sample. It was a set-up," Mr Leslie said.
Everybody we know has no doubt Michelle was framed. It's a small minority that believe she was guilty and unfortunately they are the people who always get themselves heard."
Police documents show Leslie, 24, was ordered to take a urine test seven hours after being arrested for possession of ecstasy outside a Bali dance party.
The first test at the Polda police headquarters in Denpasar returned a negative result.
Leslie was held in custody before undergoing a second test on August 25, 2005. On that occasion her urine and blood samples tested positive to MDMA.
There has been no explanation from Indonesian authorities about how ecstasy found its way into her blood while she was sharing a jail cell with 20 other women.
The drug test discrepancy emerged as Leslie's lawyer, Ross Hill, and confidante Sean Mulcahy told New Idea she lived in fear of being raped or killed during her three-month prison ordeal.
Mr Hill and Mr Mulcahy told New Idea police demanded $US400,000 in bribes once they realised her boyfriend, Scott Sutton, was linked to the Suttons Holden empire.
Leslie, who has struggled to resurrect her once stellar modelling career since being released from Bali's Kerobokan jail, is trying to renew a US visa that would allow her to work overseas.
Albert Leslie said yesterday he hoped the emergence of the full story of her arrest would help to clear his daughter's name.
Mr Leslie said his daughter was unfairly compared to Schapelle Corby and the Bali Nine, adding: "It was a mistake to lump all these kids into the same basket."
Mr Leslie said he was deeply disappointed by the Federal Government's attitude to his daughter and asked for an apology.
News.au