DELAYED: Tauranga lawyer Craig Tuck (right) said his client, Bali drug accused Antony de Malmanche, is looking forward to being transferred to Kerobokan Prison where he can have a mattress and pillow, despite a delay and its fearsome reputation.PHOTO/FILE
DELAYED: Tauranga lawyer Craig Tuck (right) said his client, Bali drug accused Antony de Malmanche, is looking forward to being transferred to Kerobokan Prison where he can have a mattress and pillow, despite a delay and its fearsome reputation.PHOTO/FILE
The transfer of Bali drug accused Antony de Malmanche to Bali's most notorious prison has been postponed.
De Malmanche was to be transferred from where he is being held in Bali Polda to Kerobokan Prison this week. That transfer is now scheduled for January 27.
Kerobokan Prison is considered Bali'smost notorious and is also labelled by inmates "Hotel Kerobokan".
However, De Malmanche's Tauranga-based lawyer Craig Tuck said his client was looking forward to getting to Kerobokan where he can have a mattress and pillow and get off the concrete floor.
"The Kerobokan jail has many advantages over the Bali Polda arrangements - easier visiting and some creature comforts. Tony will be far more comfortable there," Mr Tuck said.
Mr Tuck said the defence team was "full steam ahead" preparing the defence.
Rotorua born Leeza Ormsby spent nine months in custody, most at Kerobokan Prison, after she was charged in May with drug possession, the same jail in which Australian Schapelle Corby served her time for drug smuggling.
Ormsby returned home in November. Corby was granted parole in 2014.
Other former inmates have written books about their incaceration, including New Zealand-born Paul Conibeer who described sharing a 33-man cell with 51 other men and facing the threat of being put in a cell with no toilet.
