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Renae Lawrence (born 11 October 1977) is an Australian former hospitality worker and panel beater who was convicted in Indonesia for drug trafficking as a member of the Bali Nine. In 2005, on her third trip to Bali, Lawrence was arrested at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Denpasar with of heroin concealed on her body. After a criminal trial, in which she cooperated with investigators and informed on the ringleaders, she was sentenced on 13 February 2006 to life imprisonment, despite prosecutors' call for a 20-year penalty. Her appeal to the Indonesian Supreme Court to have the life sentence reduced was successful, and on 26 April 2006 was given a sentence of 20 years' imprisonment. Lawrence had been serving her sentence at Kerobokan Prison but was moved to a prison in Negara, Bali, in late 2013. She was moved there without prior warning after authorities accused her of a plot to kill jail guards. In March 2014, she was again transferred, at her request, to a prison in Bangli to be closer to Denpasar for her family and visitors. She was previously given a five-month remission of her sentence on Merdeka Day in 2009. Her earliest release date is in February 2026. ==Background== Lawrence, from Newcastle in New South Wales, came from a broken home〔 and for most of her teen and early adulthood years she lived with her same sex partner and mother of three children, who was ten years older than Lawrence. After the relationship with her partner ended, Lawrence moved back in with her mother and stepfather. Her father commented on Lawrence, who was 27 at the time of her arrest, as being generally naïve and unworldly: Initially employed with a smash repair company, Lawrence later gained employment at Eurest, a catering company, where she met Martin Stephens, Matthew Norman, and her supervisor, Andrew Chan. All four would later be convicted of drug trafficking as fellow members of the Bali Nine.〔 In an earlier unrelated incident, Lawrence and Norman were arrested on 26 March 2005, travelling along the Pacific Highway in a stolen vehicle. It was reported that police were required to use road spikes to intercept the vehicle. Both were due to appear on 26 April 2005 in the Gosford Magistrates Court to face car theft and traffic related charges. However, due to their arrest in Indonesia nine days earlier, both Lawrence and Norman failed to appear.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Renae Lawrence」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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