Kathryn Bonella | Hotel K | IRISH EXAMINER REVIEW

Australian Scott Rush is serving a life sentence in Hotel K for strapping heroin to his body and attempting to smuggle it from Bali to Sydney. He was part of syndicate of nine young Aussie traffickers - dubbed the Bali 9; two are now on death row. This is a photo of Scott Rush after a Hotel K tennis match.

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Published: 2011-04-16

IRISH EXAMINER REVIEW - HOTEL K

FIRST THOUGHTS

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Review: Jennifer Hough

Kathryn Bonella

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IN 2005, 27 year-old Schapelle Corby was sentenced to 20 years in an Indonesian prison for smuggling 4.2kg of marijuana into Bali.

Despite her unwavering pleas of innocence, the beautician from Australia’s Gold Coast, is serving out her time in the notorious Kerobokan prison, where she will remain until 2024.

Kathryn Bonella, an Australian journalist living in London, moved to Bali in 2005 to research and write Corby’s autobiography, which became a bestseller. While she was there, she came into contact with a host of other tragic inmates who spend miserable lives in the rat-infested "Hotel K".

In her follow up book, Bonella tells these stories and that of the prison where hanging, murders, corruption, paid-for sex and widespread drug abuse are everyday.

A fascinating insight into the prison, Hotel K includes shocking testimonies and black humour.

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