No More Tomorrows - The Epilogue

As I left a visit with Schapelle recenty, I told her, 'Don't lose hope.' She looked at me with her piercing blue eyes and stated matter of factly: 'It's gone. It's already gone!'

This has been a shattering year for Schapelle, perhpas the most deeply shattering of all so far. After five years of battling prostate and bone cancer, her beloved father, Miachael Corby, finally passed away in January.

Schapelle didn't get a chance to say goodbye.

It has broker her heart. Tears spring to her eyes at the mention of her dad. She is in such unbearable pain that she is unable to write about his passing herself.

Michael Corby lived for ths three childre, Schapelle, Mercedes and Michael - they were his whole world. He shared a special bond with his youngest daughter that was clear to see. She put a sparkle in his eyes. She lit him up. She was always his baby girl, and he adored her.

His last word before slipping into unconsciousness were to ask if Schapelle was OK.

Seeing her unjustly caged in a cell, losing her precious life day by day in a dark nightmare that he was powerless to do anything about, devasted him. He moved to Bali in 2005 to do whatever he could to hlep, devoting his loast good months to being with his daughters. Despite being in pain and terribly sick, he regularly did Schapelle's grocery shopping and visted her almost dialy in Kerobokan prison - sitting on the dirty concrete floor of the jail, ignoring the intense pain that caused him. But in 2006 he was forced to return to Australia for further medical treatment. Schapelle never saw him again.

He failed to recover his health sufficiently to make a return trip.

Father and daughter were each trapped, oceans apart, by their own tragic circumstances. The shocking injustic that keeps her locked behind the white walls of Kerobokan Prison stole her chance to say goodbye to her dad. His death has crushed her to a point where her family is seriously worried about her mental state for the first time.

She's acutely aware that life on the outside has now changed irreversibly. A few months after her dad's death, her stepfather, Greg Martin, who was a big part of her life for the past fifteen years, also lost his fight with cancer. It is a devastatingly sad time for Schapelle and her family.

But there was another cruel blow to compound her agony. After living with a flame of hope for the past two years while three judges in Jakarta reviewed her case, they finally delivered their deadly decision in March - her sentence will stand at 20 years.

She has now exhaused all appeals. The flame is out. Her hopes are dead. She truly believes there are no more tomorrows.

Kathryn Bonella
April 2008

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