Bali Nine vigil organiser Ben Quilty hopes Sydney event sends a message
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Version 0 of 1. Supporters are preparing a candlelit vigil for the heroin traffickers Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan in Sydney as hopes fade that the Bali Nine members will be spared the death penalty in Indonesia. The organiser and Archibald prize-winning artist Ben Quilty will be joined by the singer Megan Washington and actor David Wenham at the Music for Mercy vigil in Martin Place on Thursday evening from 7pm. Quilty, who befriended Sukumaran, 33, and Chan, 31, over art classes at Bali’s Kerobokan prison, said he hoped the vigil would send a message. He said the pair had been rehabilitated and were not the men they once were. “They made stupid, self-indulgent mistakes, but so did I,” Quilty said. It seems increasingly likely the two men will soon be executed in Indonesia for their role in a 2005 heroin smuggling plot. Lawyers for the pair are in Bali preparing to lodge a final court appeal after the rejection of presidential clemency. |