Two alleged drug smugglers, part of the so-called Bali Nine, will learn their fate in a Bali court later on Monday.
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13 Feb 2006 - 12:00 AM  UPDATED 24 Feb 2015 - 11:39 AM

Renae Lawrence and Scott Rush will hear from Indonesian judges just how long they will spend in prison.

Verdicts for all of the nine will be delivered over the next three days.

Prosecutors have called for Lawrence to spend 20 years behind bars, and Rush to be imprisoned for life.

Both of them claim they were forced into the heroin smuggling attempt with threats made to their families.

They are seeking the death penalty for the alleged ringleaders of the group, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, and the six others to spend life in jail.

Meanwhile, a South Korean national will appear in court in Brisbane over alleged links to the Bali Nine drug syndicate.

The man, 25, was arrested at Brisbane airport early on Sunday after arriving on a flight from South Korea.

He faces charges of conspiracy to import a traffickable quantity of narcotics into Australia between August 2004 and April 2005.

Five other people have been arrested in Australia with suspected links to the Bali Nine, and all are due to appear in court in Brisbane on April 3.

Rush regrets pain to family

Scott Rush, 20, has told the ABC that he regrets the impact his trial has had on his family.

His parents, Christine and Lee Rush, have mortgaged their house and drained their assets to be with their son in Bali.

The pair has been an almost constant presence in court for Rush as well as some of the others.

"I feel like I have destroyed everything for my parents. I love them very much and I appreciate everything they have done and hopefully some day I will return it to them," he said.

The Rushes have revealed that they tried to prevent their son from leaving for Bali, even tipping off the Australian Federal Police.

Mrs Rush said her son has been abandoned by Australian authorities.

"I feel very let down by our Australian Federal Police," she said.

Several of the Bali Nine have tried to take legal action against the federal government and the AFP for passing information on the operation to Indonesian authorities, potentially exposing them to the death penalty.

The case was rejected by the Federal Court last month.