Corby will go on proclaiming innocence:mum

23 May 2012, 8:03 pm   -   Source: AAP

Schapelle Corby's mum Rosleigh Rose says her daughter will continue to fight to clear her name even if she is released from a Bali prison.

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Schapelle Corby will continue her fight to clear her name even if she is released early on parole, her mother says.

Rosleigh Rose says her daughter has proclaimed her innocence ever since she was arrested.

Corby has been given a five-year cut to her 20-year sentence for drug smuggling, but her exact release date from Bali's notorious Kerobokan prison remains unclear.

She was convicted in 2005 of trying to smuggle 4.2 kilograms of cannabis into Bali in a bodyboard bag.

Ms Rose says she was hoping her daughter would be home in July or August.

"But I don't want to get over-excited because we've been kicked in the guts so many times," she told Network Ten.

Ms Rose said Corby's fight would not be over once she was released.

"She is innocent. And when she comes home, she'll still be fighting for her innocence, to prove her innocence."

Ms Rose said she had been worried about her daughter's mental health, given she had been hospitalised for depression several times during her stay in her overcrowded Bali jail cell.

"When she got really sick, she went back into a child," she said.

"I think that was the only way to cope."

The worried mother said she had already planned how she hoped to help Corby get over the harrowing ordeal.

"Take her to Tugun beach so she can get the sand between her toes and go for a swim," she said.

Taking into account two years in sentence remissions she's already received, the clemency approval means the 34-year-old would be released in 2015.

But the possibility of parole means it could happen sooner - the family hopes as soon as August.

Ms Rose said Schapelle's sister Mercedes would file the parole application in Bali, but she had no idea when.

"Mercedes is over there and she works all that out," she told AAP.

Earlier, Ms Rose said she would head to Bali in July with a view to bringing her daughter home.

Mercedes is expected to visit her in Kerobokan prison on Wednesday.

Some observers have hosed down the chance of parole, something rarely afforded to foreigners in a country that takes a very hard line on drug offences.

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