Two updates to previously-posted articles, both strikingly recent:

As posted on the 8th, a Thai mother – Rita Ariyaratnam – killed her two babies and attempted to kill herself but survived her own over-dose. Today she was charged with the murders at a bed-side hearing where she’d recently come off of life-support. The Sunday Times

The cocaine post from just yesterday has been blown out of the picture by news that surfaced today about some Mexicans who imported 144kg of the same white gold with a value of over $30MM. The drugs arrived at an Artarmon address on the 28th of January and then moved to Castle Hill on the 6th of this month, being tracked by the Federal Police since entering the country. Three men were arrested on the 8th. The North Shore Times

46-year-old Ramia Binti Jimson of Malaysia has had her appeal dismissed which argued that her sentence of eight years in gaol was too harsh. She was gaoled in February for importing a marketable quantity of an illicit drug.

Ramia arrived in Brisbane in March 2008 with nearly 2kg of cocaine hidden in a false-bottomed suitcase. The value of the cocaine (1.6kg pure) was valued at over $2MM, according to the court. Ramia is not an Australian national and was put up to the job (which would have paid her $2.552,32) by a Brazilian. Ramia’s drug route was Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Auckland and finally Brisbane. Ramia took up the drug-running job to get funds to move to Bangladesh with her Bangladeshi husband.

Ramia will have to serve only 4.5 of her 8 years before being eligible for parole.

Brisbane Times