A New Zealand woman being held in Bali after a drug raid is stressed, sleeping on the floor and has had only one friend visit her cell, her lawyer says.
Leeza Tracey Ormsby remains in custody after being arrested in a police raid on a villa north of Kuta last week.
Information supplied by police following Leeza Ormsby's arrest. Photo: AAP
Police allege they found the 37-year-old in possession of a marijuana cigarette. They then seized six tablets of hashish, seven tablets of MDMA, electronic scales, duct tape and wrapping plastic from the villa.
Ms Ormsby could be charged with distributing drugs, an offence that carries a maximum 20-year jail term, AAP reports. She denies the allegations.
Her Indonesian lawyer, Ari Soenardi, said on Thursday that his client is a little bit stressed and disturbed, particularly since hearing the media was reporting her predicament. She will be made to attend a police news conference on Friday.
When he visited on Tuesday, he took her books on how to speak basic Indonesian. "At that time, she was in a cell with a group of four women prisoners. She sleeps on a mat."
Mr Soenardi said her family was in New Zealand, but she had seen one visitor and went to Bali alone as a backpacker.
Leeza Ormsby is from Rotorua but has been living in Sydney, Australia, for some time.
Robert Ovadia of Australia's Channel 7 News is in Denpasar, where the news conference will take place at 9am (local time) on Friday. He told Radio New Zealand's Checkpoint programme on Thursday that authorities are likely to present the evidence and Ms Ormsby to the media as part of their "shaming process".
New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade says it is assisting Ms Ormsby. A spokesperson says a consul from the New Zealand embassy in Jakarta is providing support and has visited her, but declined to comment further.
Her arrest comes just two days after convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby was released on parole from Bali's Kerobokan jail.
The Australian was sentenced to 20 years' jail but could have been sentenced to death after being arrested in 2004 at Denpasar's airport with 4.1kg of marijuana. Corby served nine years before qualifying to serve her parole in Bali.
A lawyer who worked on Corby's case said the New Zealander can expect harsh conditions. Kerry Smith-Douglas said unless Ms Ormsby has $100 a week to pay for the use of a bed, she will be sharing the ground with rats.
Ms Smith-Douglas urged the New Zealand Government to get involved, as the maximum penalty for drug offending in Indonesia is death.
The Askara Villa property where Ms Ormsby was arrested earlier in February. Photo: AAP
