VIDEO. Indonesia: Heather Mack, the "murderer with the suitcase" has been released

Heather Mack, nicknamed "the murderer with the suitcase," was released from prison on Friday after seven years behind bars. The one who was 19 years old at the time of the facts was sentenced in 2015 to a 10-year prison sentence, while her companion Tommy Schaefer was sentenced to 18 years in prison, for the murder of Sheila von Wiese Mack, a figure of the Chicago jet set, in a Balinese hotel. In 2014, Tommy Schaefer fatally struck the victim, 62, in the head with a fruit bowl during a heated argument at the St Regis Hotel. His partner hid in the bathroom during the murder and the young couple then concealed the body in a suitcase. The couple fled after leaving the suitcase in a taxi in front of the hotel, before being quickly arrested. Heather Mack, who was pregnant at the time,was convicted of aiding and abetting murder and her boyfriend of premeditated murder.

Now 25, the young woman left the Kerobokan Balinese prison on Friday, benefiting from early release for good behavior, said the head of the women's section of the detention center. With her eyes hidden behind sunglasses, Ms. Mack, who wore the detainees' orange vest, was handed over to immigration services before her deportation to the United States.

It has also not been clarified whether her daughter, now six years old and raised in foster care in Bali, will be deported at the same time.

Earlier, her lawyer told AFP that she did not want her daughter to be deported and then "hunted down by the (American) media".

Tommy Schaefer, who remains in detention, admitted to the homicide during his trial but said he had to defend himself during a violent argument with the mother of his partner, unhappy that her daughter was pregnant.