Amid the seamy sideshow, many may forget the depth of their initial sympathy for Corby. Soon after the guilty verdict, Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton had sent a letter to the prisoner: ''My heart bleeds for you.''
iona Connolly, at Woman's Day, says most Australians and her readers believe - regardless of Corby's guilt or innocence - that the punishment did not fit the crime. ''In the same way Lindy Chamberlain did, Schapelle really gets to the heart of the Australian psyche, which refuses to accept injustice.