An American convicted of killing her mother with her boyfriend and leaving her body in a suitcase in Bali will be granted early release, her lawyer said on Monday (August 23).
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Heather Mack, then 19, was sentenced in 2015 to 10 years in prison, while her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the murder on the Indonesian island of Bali of Sheila von Wiese Mack, a figure in the Chicago jet set.
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She will have served her sentence in October (...) and she will then be completely free,
" Yulius Benyamin Seran, the young woman's lawyer, told AFP.
The body hidden in a suitcase
The young American, now 25, should be released three years in advance from the Balinese prison in Kerobokan for good behavior, the lawyer said without giving a specific date.
Her boyfriend had hit the victim, 62, fatally on the head with a container during a heated argument at the St Regis Hotel in 2014, the prosecution said during the trial.
Heather Mack hid in the bathroom during the murder and the young couple then concealed the body in a suitcase.
The couple fled after dropping the suitcase containing the body in a taxi outside their luxury hotel, but were quickly arrested.
Heather Mack, who was then pregnant, was found guilty of aiding and abetting murder and her boyfriend of premeditated murder.
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The young woman should be deported to the United States after her release, according to the lawyer. But she would like to stay in Indonesia to take care of her six-year-old daughter raised in a foster family, he said. The prison management declined to comment on the date of his release.
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