AFP hands document about Jessica Wongso to Indonesia, as she stands accused of murdering Mirna Salihin
THE AFP have handed documents to Indonesia with details about an Australian girl on trial for murdering her friend by adding cyanide to her coffee.
AUSTRALIAN Federal Police documents have been handed to Indonesian prosecutors containing information about an Australian resident on trial for allegedly murdering her friend by adding cyanide to her coffee.
ABC 730 reports the AFP file showed Jessica Wongso suffers from mental health problems.
The information in the police file is now being used by Indonesian police.
Wongso, from Sydney, lived in Australia for seven years before going to Jakarta on holidays when she allegedly murdered her friend, Mirna Salihin.
She is accused of adding cyanide to her iced coffee.
The girls studied at the Billy Blue Design College in Sydney together.
ABC 730 reports that Justice Minister Michael Keenan approved the handing-over of the AFP file that contained details of Wongso’s behaviour a year before she allegedly killed her friend.
The file contains confidential police intelligence reports that detail four suicide attempts that required hospitalisation, threatening behaviour towards colleagues and a major alcohol-fuelled road accident, ABC 730 reports.
ABC 730, which has seen the file, also said it also contained information about an Apprehended Violence Order taken out against her by her ex-boyfriend.
Indonesian police have reportedly used the file to pursue Wongso. But her lawyer, Yudi Wibowo, said the information was being misused.
“A report to the police in Australia has been treated as a crime by Indonesian police — that’s a misuse,” he told ABC 730.
“Yes, they are looking for death sentence, and my duty as a lawyer is to try to evade the death sentence and get her free, because there is not enough evidence,” he added.