Laura Pemberton smitten with Scott Rush, one of the drug mules in the Bali Nine who is facing the death penalty.
Laura Pemberton, a 26-year-old saleswoman from Melbourne, is one bleeding heart to have fallen for the fallen.She's smitten with Scott Rush, one of the drug mules in the Bali Nine who is facing the death penalty.They met when she and friends followed the well-worn tourist trail to Kerobokan jail, now on many young backpackers must-see list, to dispense "some food and kind words"."I felt an immediate attraction but I never thought this was going to happen," she said of their bond.Although her actions suggest otherwise, she says she doesn't want to be seen as some sort of Mother Teresa. She need not worry about that.Online comments about the story of their relationship suggest most people regard her as an attention seeker, desperate to cash in on Rush's infamy."If people ask me why I'm doing it, I say it's because I care so much," she says.Providing comfort to a condemned man imprisoned in another country, while possibly misguided, is probably harmless. After all, he's not getting out.Scott Rush is concerned his life behind bars is becoming a soap opera.The 22-year-old said, while he understood his relationship with attractive Australian tourist Laura Pemberton had sparked interest, he was "confused" about life and struggling for hope.Ms Pemberton, 26, a saleswoman from St Kilda in Melbourne, last week said "there is a lot of love between us" and revealed she was planning to visit Rush again next month. The bond between the pair is symbolised by the matching "eternal" necklaces they wear.Rush is facing the death penalty along with two other Australians for their role in attempting to smuggle 8.3kg of heroin from Bali to Australia in 2005. His final appeal is expected to begin in Indonesia's Supreme Court next month."This is not a soap opera in here."
"I don't care about 15 minutes of fame. People have been bugging me about my relationship with Laura. It would be good for the public to know how I feel but I am not allowed to say anything."I do think it is a good thing people come and see me. I'm confused why I'm on a death sentence. I do not know what my chances are of getting off."Rush said he had not given up despite being on death row: "I do have hope." Rush was originally handed a life sentence but the Indonesian Supreme Court increased it to death in September 2006 after an appeal by the prosecution.
Martin Stephens, who shares a cell with Rush, said he planned to marry an Indonesian woman once his appeal against his life sentence was heard."There is no point getting married until I get off a life sentence. I don't want people thinking I'm getting married for the wrong reasons.
2 comments:
What a dickhead she is? She is clearly one disturbed individual. I bet you her parents are divorced or she has some mental issues.
I'm sure there'd be substance abuse mixed in amongst it too. What other sort of individual would get caught up in this type of thing ?
Just to set the record straight, I never wanted my 15 minutes of fame, let alone 15 seconds, am definitely not an attention seeker, never wanted to speak to that supposed journalist who harrassed me with countless phone calls and spoke with a lawyer to try to get the story pulled. I was naive enough at the time to believe the Herald Sun may actually report something that I deem newsworthy like my stance, along with many others, AGAINST capital punishment or perhaps about how the AFP fed nine young Australians to a bullsh*t justice system. I've paid the price for thinking this. Giving a sh*t about fellow human beings facing the death sentence has been turned into sensationalist bullsh*t. And whattheheck, what does having parents who are divorced got to do with anything? Sorry son but it's not as black and white as this, you seem very narrow minded and come across as not the brightest little cherry in the cherry tree don't you? And even if I do have mental issues, which thankfully I don't, don't you think you are perpetuating the stigma associated with mental illness by being so judgemental and nasty about it? I'm lucky in that I can't afford to care what people think about me but it does get a tad tiresome when I read sh*t written clearly by dumb, nasty individuals who just want to get on their moral high horse about every little thing. I've kept quiet for a year but sometimes you need to justify yourself before telling everyone who has gone to the effort to write mean things about me to eat sh*t and take a look at themselves. Lastly anyone who reads the Herald Sun and takes it as gospel is a dickhead. So what the heck why don't you go f*ck yourself really really hard and get yourself a little life? xox
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