A son is doing everything he can for his father who is locked up in Bali’s Kerobokan Prison for a drug trafficking conviction.
Kiwi Shaun de Malmanche has launched a petition to try and get his father transferred to a New Zealand prison, claiming Antony de Malmanche is suffering from ongoing angina attacks and has a large infection on his leg.
As of March 1, the petition “Bring Dad Home” has nearly 500 signatures.
“I want the world to see that my Dad is innocent and needs to be home in New Zealand. I want my Dad home,” Shaun de Malmanche wrote on the petition’s description, using the hashtag, #BringDadHome.
“His leg swelled right up and went all red and blistery,” Shaun de Malmanche told New Zealand’s ONE News.
“He couldn’t walk on it for a long time. We have to pay for him to go to hospital which is $200-$300.”
But New Zealand Justice Minister Amy Adams has said a prison transfer is a no-go, after human rights attorney Craig Tuck has been lobbying the government for such an agreement.
“The position of successive governments has been that New Zealand citizens who commit offenses overseas should be dealt with according to the relevant country’s justice system,” Adams said in a letter addressed to Tuck.
Antony de Malmanche was sentenced to 15 years in prison after he was arrested in Bali’s airport with 1.7 kilograms of meth in his backpack in December 2014. Throughout his trial, his lawyer argued he had been set up by an online dating scam, was taken advantage of, and unwittingly brought the drugs into Bali.
