Hutapea's dislike for the Australian government grows even larger

SCHAPELLE Corby's celebrity lawyer has had his disenchantment with the Federal Government buoyed by Corby herself.

Yesterday, responding to messages from Hotman Paris Hutapea about his disgust with authorities, Corby, 28, sent two phone-text messages to him from Kerobokan jail, saying she believed in him.

"The darkest hour is just before the light. Hotman, that hour is now. You can do this!" she said in one SMS.

And in another she said: "Hotman, I am grateful and I know you can do this."

Usually, it's Mr Hutapea who is trying to pep up Corby, who is fighting to have her drug smuggling conviction and 20-year sentence overturned.

He now says the Federal Government and DPP's offers to help have since been basically rescinded.

He said yesterday he still hoped to get a witness, known only as Paul, to testify via videolink, about a conversation he heard in jail about who owned the drugs in Corby's bag.

He said that indirectly the response from the Federal DPP to his request for guaranteed immunity was "no".



"Your government makes me sick," an angry Mr Hutapea said yesterday.

He accused Foreign Minister Alexander Downer of speaking "rubbish and bullshit" instead of giving encouragement or complimenting the way Mr Hutapea had managed to get Corby's trial reopened.

He said the DPP had betrayed him by putting on the table immunity for any witness who could testify as to the origin of the marijuana but then, after he had supplied a statement, withdrawing it.

Mr Hutapea claims to have a statement from a Victorian prisoner called Paul, who says he overheard a conversation between two other prisoners.

Paul claims one of them, Ronnie Vigenser, had said: "F*** Schapelle Corby, she ******* cost me 4kg of smoke."

Corby's trial is due to resume on Wednesday.