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A Timorese-born Australian citizen has been charged in connection with last week’s assassination attempts against Timor Leste’s president and prime minister. Angelita Pires is understood to have been close to the late rebel leader Alfredo Reinado, The Sydney Morning Herald reports.
Prosecutors allege that Miss Pires attempted to smuggle the 11 February coup attempt in her boogie-board bag.
The Herald reports that Miss Pires worked as a croupier at Darwin’s Skycity Casino and frequently visited rebel bases in Timor’s north.
Last year’s change of government means that no-one much cares about her time at the rebel base, but she could be a target of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s planned attacks on poker machines.
Experts in South-East Asian legal systems contacted by The Daily Grind confirmed that the woman, understood to be in her late thirties, is hotter than both Schapelle Corby and Renae Lawrence, but not as hot as Michelle Leslie. Hotness is an allowable defence to a number of crimes in the Court of Public Opinion.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has renewed its warning to travellers to obey the laws of the countries you visit. Many tourists assume that local laws do not apply to them, and that they will not face penalties if they attempt to topple the region’s governments.
