we begin with the pair all of Australia is talking about Andrew Chan and mayuran sukumaran barring
a miraculous breakthrough the fate of the Bali nine ringleaders appears to be sealed Indonesia
seems intense on shooting them dead but many people here and around the world wonder why
Mercy can't be shown to to radically reformed young men tonight remarkable new insights into
those changed lives dramatic previously unseen video and Revelations from inside carabakhan
Mike willisey witnessed their Transformations first hand here's his profoundly moving report
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Jimmy when you're older you'll be in a barley prisoner and you will be executed
you heard Andrew write a letter to himself as a 15 year old yes I did
yeah this happened to you because you thought taking drugs was cool
underneath you're not a bad person and drugs made you different say [Music] your family
and your friends are heartbreaking and your life will be ended by far explore them [Music]
my name is
[Music]
um my name is uh it's a day pretty much a few hours of the execution
six innocent lives guess what runs through my head is about how precious life really is
I met Andrew Chan and my year in Superman a little over a year ago spend some time with
them inside karabakhan prison and this is home yeah I got to know them both pretty well at the
time they were living on Hope but the reality of being executed by firing squad was ever present
so you dream often maybe every day yeah
I try not to but it does come back
what is the dream yeah about being let out and being blindfolded and being executed
at any time they could possibly take you out of yourself
and execute you and um what I choose to choose to think is if they do choose to do that
I hope that I I've made a difference Within Myself in that that I have changed and that
I've actually you know done everything that I I could have ever done um you know to better myself
I was with Andrew in my year and for four days
even though they're on death row the expectation was that Indonesia wouldn't go through with the
death sentence because as I found these young Australians had come so far rehabilitated reformed
call it what you like for me they'd become decent human beings so my Iran painted
all these ah yeah he did he did he painted all this so this is the Bali nine uh it is
so we have Martin Stevens uh life sentence life sentence why you and sukumaron death sentence
Matthew Norman life sentence myself I'm in the center death sentence life sentence Michael
shugai life sentence Scott Rush life sentence and Renee Lawrence 20 year sentence [Music]
all captured on canvas all painted by my urine within the studios he'd set up inside the prison
he graduated from drug Runner to artist and a teacher more than 40 inmates attended his
classes every day you painted a beautiful picture of your mother which we have here
when you look into your mother's eyes as you've painted them what do you see sadness
what else do you see in her face [Music]
strength maybe strength yeah she's had to endure a lot in
her life and now she's enduring this situation
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can you remember your first reaction when you were arrested you know it's the police they said it was
the police and stuff I didn't believe it until I got to the police station the next day in the
morning seven eight o'clock and then that's when it sort of hit me that oh yeah this is happening
what do you think this thought they're calling you The Godfather what do you say about that
I think it's rubbish rubbish people say was there a Mr big was there a Mr Big in this Factor uh it
probably is but who it is I don't know who it is in my book if you are smuggling more
than eight kilograms of heroin into Australia you'd want to know who you were doing it for
Andrew Chan claims he didn't know in my urine did not want to talk about it who asked you uh
there was a bunch of people in Sydney have you told the police who they are no why not
I I want to say that uh what do you call it uh okay I can't stop recording first
with the cameras off my urine still did not name Mr Big he said he feared for the safety
of his family but he did admit to trying to use that information when they were being sentenced
we tried with the police to get some kind of cooperation thing but
um they weren't really like that was our only card that we had to play and that you know we tried to
how do you say ask them for some leniency but they wouldn't and then the lawyers advised us
not to go that way if you had that information could you have tried to use it to trade for a
lesser sentence uh probably um I probably could however it's something I do not know um and
um yeah and you know I only can really just tell on my side of things of what I do know
what they had known for 10 long years was it their only way out of here was death either
by execution or old age I don't want to be execute but I don't want Andrew to be executed
it's a struggle to think about stuff like that I thought about hanging myself before allowing
somebody else to shoot me honestly I don't really think about I would like enjoy the
process of sort of being dragged in front of uh you know firing shoulder
in karobekan there's more than a thousand prisoners but Andrew and my urine stood out
what I observed during the time I was there was the respect and influence they had it was not
only other inmates but also the guards I'll give you an example getting our camera gear
in and out of the prison every day was difficult and we ran the risk of not being allowed back in
my urine said we could leave it in the prison I asked if it would be safe in a place filled
with criminals he said he'd make sure that no one touched it and no one did so let's look at
um verses 10 and here is another example of the authenticity of their transformation that
were extremely vulnerable to Temptation we asked Andrew to arrange a Bible class for
us to film when we'd finished and Andrew had no idea I was nearby he continued to lead the class
it wasn't a performance it wasn't for the camera his faith was real
I could sit here and say sorry to the public and sorry to embarrass Australia and sorry to even
embarrass the Indonesian government in many ways but sometimes sorry just doesn't cut it
every day in Bali the locals make an offering to the goddess mother
and every time she went to Bali Australian filmmaker Melinda Rutter
would come to the markets to buy fresh food for her good friend Andrew Chan
I don't condone what they did at all but the fact is that these are two young men
and it's their lives they have changed they are totally reformed and this is totally genuine
that's what's so sad five years ago Melinda lost her sister to a heroin overdose which makes it
a close friendship with the heroine Smuggler all the more unusual I said to Andrew I want
you to write a letter to your 15 year old self he agreed to write the letter for her anti-drugs film
called dear me Jimmy when you're older you're being a barley prison and you will be executed
the letter is a plea from Andrew to trouble teenagers thinking about dealing in drugs
I've missed weddings I've missed funerals and the simple presence of my own family the hurt and pain
I don't just put it onto myself but the pain I put on my family is agonizing
A Simple Touch such as a hug is not possible for a condemned man like me
I have nothing but an iron bar to hug rather than to be embraced by those I love and who I miss
I'm losing a friend and someone that could have made such a difference with drug education
been there who's done it who made the wrong choices
how do you feel
devastated yeah
you know them you know what I'm saying is right in January Hope was still alive but
time was running out for Andrew and my urine don't kill me please don't kill
him and the mercy vigil in Sydney Melinda got a message it was from Andrew asking how is it
she took a snapshot of the crowd of supporters and sent it back to him
clearly it wasn't just friends and family desperate to save their lives it was a
growing band of everyday Australians at the end of the day it's just what it is
and he did do something wrong they both did and he did have the death penalty so terribly sad
you were still young and you have some serious decisions in making in your life
what you choose today will make what you become tomorrow
guess what runs through my head Isabel that precious life really is
that all we can do about the moment that we live for I guess sometimes you kind of got to think
what does it take to get a second chance people get Second Chances within the lies and the outside
but how much can you get when you're a convicted Criminal
you have fantasies about getting out of here about going back to Australia [Music]
having a future because I don't want to die [Music]
when you're older you're being a bali prison and you will be executed
my name is Andrew Shane [Music]