Here’s something I didn’t know anything about.
I walked up to Newtown the other day and saw some street art I hadn't noticed before. The signs are painted on masonite and then fixed to walls with construction adhesive. I found these three in three different locations around Camperdown Memorial Rest Park.
From the Australian November 27, 2006.
“TEN years after she jumped bail while facing drug-smuggling charges in Thailand, one of Australia's most wanted fugitives, Lisa Marie Smith, may finally have escaped the law.
Police in Australia and Britain have admitted they have exhausted their inquiries into the 31-year-old, while Thai police privately say they have had no success with their investigation.
Ms Smith, in August 1996, failed to appear in a Bangkok court after her millionaire father, Terry Smith, then the chief executive of the National Mutual insurance company in Hong Kong, paid $75,000 to secure her release on bail.
The first foreigner facing drug-smuggling charges to be granted bail, Ms Smith had been arrested at Bangkok airport in February 1996 and accused of smuggling almost 4kg of cannabis and more than 500 amphetamine tablets.
She briefly spent time in a Bangkok prison and fled the country despite the Australian Government agreeing to negotiate a royal pardon that would have seen her serve less than two years in Thai custody.”