Schapelle Corby's "drug-free" record,Mercedes, definitely smuggled marijuana "inside her" on trips to Bali.

Jodie Power has admitted lying about Schapelle Corby's "drug-free" record, but says her sister, Mercedes, definitely smuggled marijuana "inside her" on trips to Bali.Power said she lied on national TV, and agreed there is an "enormous gulf" between what she told Channel 7's Today Tonight and the ABC about Mercedes and Schappelle Corby's involvement with drugs. In the NSW Supreme Court today, Power admitted lying on the ABC's 7.30 Report about Schapelle Corby having a drug free record "to protect her". In an interview with The 7.30 Report back in March 2005, Power said: "I have never, never seen Schapelle smoke marijuana, never seen her take drugs." In the witness box at the NSW Supreme Court this afternoon, she said that was a lie. "I lied that I hadn't seen her taking drugs," she said, adding it was "to protect her...to get her out of jail". Power, a former best friend of Mercedes Corby, is facing a defamation action, along with Channel Seven, its Today Tonight current affairs show and host Anna Coren after she claimed on air that Mercedes Corby was a drug dealer. Under cross-examination from Stuart Littlemore QC, appearing for Mercedes Corby, Power's credibility was thrown in to question again, when she was asked about what she told Today Tonight about Mercedes Corby and her history with smuggling marijuana in to Bali. The jury was first shown footage from an unedited interview Power did with the Channel Seven current affairs program about a year ago, where Power said Mercedes Corby "compressed and carried it (marijuana) inside her''. Mr Littlemore QC then asked Power if she made up what she told Today Tonight. He said to Power: "It was in her vagina but you have made that up."
Power replied: "No I haven't.'' She then agreed with Mr Littlemore that there was an "enormous gulf" between what she told Channel Seven and the ABC in the interviews she did.