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Michelle Leslie Only Receives Three-Month Jail Sentence
Tuesday, 15 November, 2005 | 22:26 WIB

TEMPO Interactive, Denpasar, Bali:Michelle Leslie, 24, an Australian model who was involved in a drug case in Bali received three-months imprisonment at a trial held at the Denpasar District Court on Tuesday (15/11).

Public Prosecutor Risman Torihoran said that Leslie had only used the drugs rather than having owned the evidence found on her. It was not proved that Leslie had owned the two ecstasy pills found in her bag, because witnesses in the court attested to the fact that they saw Leslie receive the evidence from a girl named Mia.

Mia as Leslie’s friend is a mysterious figure and is only mentioned briefly in the accusation, while the police are still pursuing her. The three witnesses who said they saw Mia giving ecstasy to Leslie were not present in the court. They are Leslie’s friends, Nicola and Gustav, and Andre Wuisan, a chauffeur who drove their car.

“The defendant was proven of having violated Article 60 sub-section 5 of Law No.5/1997,” said the public prosecutor. Meanwhile, the primary charge of Article 59 sub-section 1 letter e of Law No.5/1997 on psychotropics was not proved.

Leslie was arrested by Bali Police on August 20, 2005, when the police conducted a drug raid in the Garuda Wisnu Kencana area. She was arrested as she was going to attend a party with some of her friends. The police found two ecstasy pills in her bag. (Rofiqi Hasan-Tempo News Room)