Bali Nine member to serve life imprisonment in Bali

Bali Nine drug mule Scott Rush, was told today he would escape the death penalty if found guilty of trafficking drugs.

The Denpasar District court informed him that prosecutors are seeking a life-sentence. This decision will mean the other 3 ‘mules’ and probably some others too, will also escape death. The 2 kingpins, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran will probably get the death sentence, but in Indonesia the appeals process can take years.
You’ve got to think this decision will make the families of some of the Bali Nine sleep easier tonight. Getting them out of prison in the long term will be a war of attrition. Talking with an foreigner at the jail the other day, we discussed what we’d do if the Bali Nine were our kids. Would we pay someone a couple of hundred thousand for a ‘solution’ or just sit and wait and hope the Aussie government can do something? I said I’d give my last penny to get my kid out, even if it meant bankrupcy, but of course its an easy thing to say when your not in that position.
The guilty verdicts will be delivered next month along with the sentencing.