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Updated June 11, 2009 10:46:00
Five Australians marooned in the Papuan town of Merauke for the past nine months were celebrating with beer and prawns last night after learning they will soon fly home to Horn Island in the Torres Strait.
Indonesia's Supreme Court has thrown out an appeal, lodged by prosecutors, which challenged a lower court's decision to free the five back in March.
The Australians were originally sentenced to up to three years in jail for landing a light plane in the troubled Indonesian territory on September 12 last year without visa or security clearances.
For Queensland pilot William Scott-Bloxam, his co-pilot wife Vera and their three passengers, a weekend trip away from Horn Island in the Torres Strait turned into a nightmare.
It will still take days for the decision to snake back through the court system, permitting the five to board their plane for the one-hour flight home.
But last night, passengers Keith Mortimer and Karen Burke were celebrating.
'We're ecstatic,' Mr Mortimer said.
'We've got nothing official but we believe that by probably 11 o'clock Jakarta time tomorrow we'll have something official in writing. But we believe the news is all good, yes.'
The testing truth for the Merauke Five however, is that they have been here before.
In March, Papua's High Court also quashed their convictions and ordered them home. But even as they waited at Merauke's airport for an imminent departure, an appeal by prosecutors crushed their hopes of freedom.
That is why back in Taree, on the New South Wales mid-north coast, Keith Mortimer's daughter, Kate Crisp, says she is over the moon but a little apprehensive.
'We've been down this road before,' she said.
'We were told they were coming home many months ago and we got so excited and our dream came all to an end when that didn't happen.
'So this time around it does feel a little bit different deep down inside. It is hard not to start celebrating but we really won't truly start celebrating until he's back on safe ground.'
Ms Crisp says she will be on Horn island when her father gets off the plane.
'I have all hope just to be there to greet him, put my arms around him and say 'look, we love you, and welcome home',' she said.
Court documents have shown that prosecutors were partly motivated to strictly enforce the letter of the law, by the unfair treatment they say is meted out to Indonesians whose boats are burnt when they are caught fishing in Australian waters.
Only new evidence could see the prosecutors attempt yet another appeal. That's unlikely given the flight tower recordings, which prove the five were given permission to land in the first place.
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First posted June 11, 2009 08:47:00
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