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Thank you for listening to this episode's ads. By supporting our sponsors, you support Casefile to continue to deliver quality content. While little was known about Jessica Wongso's early days in Sydney, the year leading up to Myrna Salihin's death had been a tumultuous one for the then 26 year old. Police records revealed that Jessica had been working as a graphic designer for the New South Wales Ambulance Service when things began to unravel in her personal life. It all started in January 2015 when her boyfriend at the time, an Australian man named Patrick o', Connor, tried to end their relationship. According to Patrick, Jessica began sending him countless text and voice messages in which she threatened to hurt herself. She went ahead with that threat in late January 2015 and was subsequently hospitalised for self harm. This destructive behaviour continued to escalate over the following months. In October 2015, Patrick called the police to Jessica's flat after she tried to poison herself with carbon monoxide from a small coal barbecue. She was hospitalised but released shortly after. A few weeks later, police were called to the flat again. This time Jessica was unconscious in bed with a bottle of whisky and three letters by her side. One of the letters was addressed to her family and one was addressed to her co workers saying her goodbyes. The other letter blamed Patrick for her death. In November 2015, two months before Myrna's death. Patrick contacted the police after discovering that his car had been destroyed by a vandal. Although he couldn't prove who was responsible, he felt confident it was Jessica. Not only had she been harassing him, but his friends too. Fearing for their safety, Patrick sought an urgent apprehended violence order against Jessica, hoping that a court issued restraining order would deter her from further harassment. He described Jessica as unstable and although there was no evidence for police to charge her with damaging the CAR, the urgent AVO request was granted with a court hearing set for February 2016 to formally put it in place. Around the same time that Patrick's car was vandalised, Jessica was fired from her job with the New South Wales Ambulance Service. As part of the investigation into Myrna Selihan's suspected murder, police interviewed Jessica's former boss, a woman named Christy Carter. Christy told the police that during the eight months she'd spent working with the Jessica, she'd seen two very different sides of her personality. While Jessica could be kind and loved to smile, she was also quick to anger if things didn't go her way. Kristi described Jessica as being manipulative, dishonest, hateful and bad tempered. She said she wasn't surprised to hear that she was being accused of poisoning her friend, telling police, I have observed her for the past eight months and from her attitude, hatred and nature of her craziness, I have no doubt that she is capable of hurting or killing another person. Christy had gone to visit Jessica in the hospital after her suicide attempt in October 2015. Jessica was furious because the doctors were refusing to discharge her. She said something along the lines of, the bastards in this hospital will not let me go home and they are treating me like a killer, but if I wanted to kill someone, I certainly know how to do it. I could get a gun and I know the right dosage. After Jessica lost her job with the ambulance service, she asked for Christy's help in finding a new place to live. When Christie refused, Jessica allegedly threatened to kill both Christy and Christie's mother. Christy told the police she had no idea how Jessica could have obtained the cyanide that was used to kill Myrna, but she didn't doubt the possibility. When Jessica wants something to happen, Christy said, it could happen. All up. Jessica Wongso had reportedly been hospitalised for four suicide attempts in the months leading up to Mina's death. Combined with the allegations from Patrick o' Connor and the comments she allegedly made to Kristy Carter, this gave Indonesian authorities their first real insight into Jessica's psychological state. Leading up to to the supposed crime. But it was a police report from August 2015 that really caught their attention. On the night of Saturday, August 22, 2015, emergency services were called to a nursing home in the Sydney suburb of Leichardt after a car plunged through the brick facade just metres from where dozens of elderly residents were sleeping. Police arrived to find Jessica Wongso behind the wheel in what they believed to be an intoxicated state. She was taken to the hospital but managed to escape with minor injuries to her ribs and chest. No one else was hurt in the accident. Jessica was charged with a high range drink driving offence, further adding to her problems, according to confidential police files released exclusively by ABC's 7:30 program. In the lead up to her trip to Jakarta at the end of 2015, Jessica sent a text message to a friend saying she was considering fleeing Australia to avoid paying over $15,000 she owed in fines and legal fees. I could use the money to have an epic holiday, she wrote. Have new licences anywhere where my dad got power too, rather than giving money to those police ignorant cunts. In another message, she wrote, I'm being pushed again and again. I'll break. For the Indonesian prosecutors, the files handed over by the Australian Federal Police were exactly what they needed to pursue the murder charge against Jessica. In their view, it proved that she was becoming more emotionally unstable and increasingly aggressive in the lead up to Myrna's death. Her harmful behaviour, once directed at herself, was now turned toward others. It also turned out that Jessica had been fired just days after Mina and Arif got married. A wedding she had not been invited to. Prosecutors believed the culmination of these events could have led her to direct her anger towards Myrna. As Myrna's twin Sister Sandy told 60 Minutes, I think Jessica is jealous of Myrna because Myrna had a good life and a good future ahead of her. And maybe Jessica's life is crap all up. The brief of evidence was sent back and forth between the police and prosecutors five times over a three and a half month period before the Jakarta High Prosecutor's office finally determined that there was enough evidence for the case to proceed to trial. This was major news in Indonesia, where the story had been making headlines from the outset. While the police had been gathering evidence against Jessica, speculation had been rampant about who else could have possibly been responsible responsible for Myrna Selehin's death. Although no one else was ever formally investigated for the murder, that didn't stop the rumour mill from running wild. One of Jessica's lawyers claimed that someone could have taken out a life insurance policy against Myrna overseas in which they stood to gain US$5 million in the event she was murdered. Without elaborating on this possibility, he said that Jessica was being used as a scapegoat, asking why is Jessica the only person targeted in this case when it is possible that other persons were involved? These comments led to public suspicion against Myrna's husband, Arif Simarco, with some speculating that he was the one who stood to gain from such a life insurance policy. Some publications reported that Arif could have co conspired with Olivier's barista Ranga Saputra by paying him to spike Myrna's drink. One tabloid journalist claimed that on the day before Myrna died, he was in the car park of a shopping mall when he saw a man who looked like Arif Samarco pass a package to Ranga Saputra, the implication being that the package could have contained either cash or the cyanide that was used to kill Myrna. Arif vehemently denied such rumours and publicly accused the journalist of slander, while Myrna's father reported Jessica's lawyer for defamation for his unfounded statements regarding the life insurance policy. Meanwhile, others theorised that Myrna and Jessica could have been having a secret lesbian relationship during their time together in Australia. Myrna's marriage to Arif tipped Jessica over the edge and led her to poison Myrna in a jealous rage. Myrna's friends and family denied that she was ever involved in a same sex relationship, but that didn't discount the possibility that Jessica could have had romantic feelings towards her. Myrna's father publicly claimed to have seen a series of text messages that Jessica had sent Myrna which he believed carried romantic connotations, fuelling rumours that Jessica could have killed Mina out of rejection. A forensic hypnotist who interviewed Jessica and examined the messages sent between the pair told ABC's 7:30 there was no evidence to support the theory that the two women were lovers, but the rumour prevailed regardless. Some also speculated that Arif and Jessica could have been having an affair, an allegation they both strongly denied and for which no evidence existed. For the average Indonesian, watching the story play out was compared to watching a real life soap opera. In a country where the majority of the population reportedly lives on less than US$4 a day, the same price as a cup of coffee from Olivier Cafe. The salacious story of murder and revenge among the wealthy urban classic had people gripped with the Jessica and Myrna's families pitted against one another. Unfounded rumours swirled that the murder was part of a business rivalry between the two families. As writer Johannes Nagroho explained in an article for Foreign Policy magazine, while the two families do not make the list of Indonesia's top 10 richest, they are filthy rich by the urban wealthy standards, at least rich enough to buy the law. The fight between them is a drama that even those convinced of Wong Tso's innocence can enjoy. Indonesians have a proverb that when two elephants clash, the mouse deer caught in between is doomed. In Sally Hinn's murder case, however, two elephants are locked in a struggle while the tiny mouse deer get to be the spectators. For the average Indonesian, this is a moment of sweet irony. Watching giants grapple at each other's throats without being trampled underfoot yourself does not happen a lot in a country where the political and economic elites hold the reins, often at the expense of the rest. Ultimately, tragedies like Salahin's death are seized upon by Indonesians because they expose the vulnerabilities of the country's upper class and bring the hope that things can go awry even for the giants. Interest in the story only strengthened after it was revealed that celebrity lawyer Oto Hezibwan had agreed to take on Jessica's defence case pro bono. Many were disappointed by his decision to do so. With the Jessica's trial approaching, a majority of Indonesians were convinced she was guilty and they didn't approve of Oto's decision to defend a killer. But as Oto later told Netflix, he had been scheduled to go on an Alaskan cruise with his family when he received a visit from Jessica's mother, saying that her daughter had been treated unfairly and pleading with him to take on the case. Oto met with Jessica and agreed to help on one condition. If at any point he became convinced that she was guilty of murdering Myrna Salihin, he would resign from the case. Jessica agreed without hesitation. Oto was one of 15 lawyers on Jessica's legal team. As they looked further into the case, they discovered that all wasn't as it seemed in the trial by media. First and foremost, there was the question of why Jessica would have chosen Olivier Cafe as the place to commit a murder. Not only was it a popular busy spot, but if Jessica was aware of the CCTV cameras like investigators asserted, then why wouldn't she have simply chosen a quieter location that didn't have any security cameras? The fact that Jessica had arrived at Olivier Cafe an hour and a half ahead of the agreed upon meeting time. Time was viewed as proof that she'd come to scope the place out in preparation for Myrna's murder. But according to Jessica, she only arrived so early because of the three in one traffic rule that was in place in Jakarta at the time. To avoid congestion on the roads of the densely populated city, only cars with three or more passengers were allowed to use the main roads during peak periods. She said she'd only arrived early because she had to, not because she wanted to. Much had also been made about Jessica's decision to order her friend's drinks ahead of time, with the implication being that she did this so she could slip the cyanide into Myrna's drink. But Jessica claimed that she'd ordered the drinks, expecting them to be served by the time Mina and Hani arrived. WhatsApp messages sent between the group at the time confirmed that Myrna and Hani had been running late that afternoon. If Myrna and Hani had arrived on time like Jessica expected, her defence team pointed out that she wouldn't have had the opportunity to administer the cyanide. The messages also showed that Jessica told Myrna she was going to order the Vietnamese iced coffee for her ahead of time. To which Myrna agreed. For the defence team, Jessica's message to Myrna's twin sister Sandy about the lab results wasn't an attempt to see if she'd been caught, but because she was genuinely curious to know how her friend had died. The article she'd sent Sandy about cyanide laced coffee being sold in Vietnam wasn't an indication that Jessica knew Myrna had been poisoned with cyanide either, but simply proved that she was looking for any possible information about what might have happened to her friend. The fact that Jessica was staying in a hotel with packed suitcases at the time of her arrest wasn't an indication that she intended to flee the country. She and her parents had moved there to escape the throngs of journalists who had camped outside of their home. With no evidence to suggest how Jessica could have sourced the cyanide and no footage of her removing anything from her handbag or putting anything into the iced coffee, her defence team questioned the validity of the prosecution's case entirely. The timing of the so called suspicious movements that Jessica had made behind the gift bags coincided with a text message that she had sent to Myrna. They believed that any movement she made could be attributed to that. And they didn't think there was anything suspicious about the gift bags either. Jessica claimed she had simply wanted to buy her friends a present. As for her unusually composed demeanour after Myrna's death and when fronting reporters, Jessica explained that she was generally a calm person and she didn't want to show her true emotions in front of the cameras. Confused about how to deal with the whole saga, she said she wanted to bury the memory of what happened on January 6. But above all, there was one major detail that the defence team couldn't get past. The lethal oral dose of cyanide for a human of Myrna's weight was around 1171 milligrams. Toxicology testing of the Vietnamese iced coffee handed over by staff at Olivier Cafe detected 7,400mg per litre of cyanide in the glass served to Myrna and 7900mg per litre in the water bottle into which staff had poured the remaining liquid after the incident. However, toxicology tests conducted on samples taken From Myrna's body 70 minutes after she died had revealed no traces of cyanide in her gastric fluid, bile or urine. Further samples taken three days after she died had revealed just 0.2 milligrams per litre of cyanide in her stomach. Not only was this incredibly low dose not enough to be fatal, but no cyanide was detected in her bowel or liver, which would be expected in a case of cyanide poisoning. Her skin also hadn't shown a reddish hue, which is another tell tale sign of cyanide poisoning. By the time those second samples had been taken, Myrna's body had already been embalmed. Jessica's defence team spoke to at least two forensic pathologists who explained that the low levels of cyanide detected in Myrna's stomach could have been produced post mortem, possibly during the embalming process. Because her family hadn't approved a full autopsy, none of her organs, such as her brain, lungs or heart, had been tested. And without these tests, the forensic pathologists said it couldn't be proven that Mina hadn't died from natural causes. This was a huge piece of information for the defence. If Myrna hadn't been poisoned, it explained why Hani and the cafe staff who tasted the iced coffee hadn't fallen sick despite the high levels of cyanide found in the drink. As far as the defence was concerned, the only way to explain the lack of cyanide in Myrna's system was was that the cyanide had been added to the drink after Myrna drank it. Casefile will be back shortly. Thank you for supporting us by listening to this episode's sponsors.

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Thank you for listening to this episode's ads. By supporting our sponsors, you support Casefile to continue to deliver quality content. By the time Jessica Wongso's highly anticipated trial for the murder of Mirna Salihin commenced in June 2016, it had been dubbed Indonesia's trial of the Century. In terms of public interest, it was likened to the O.J. simpson murder trial in the United States, with the topic of Jessica's possible guilt deemed a national obsession. Camera crews filled the courthouse with three television stations set to broadcast around the clock live feed of the proceedings, complete with commentaries. Indonesia operates under a civil law system. In criminal trials, there is no jury. Instead, a team of public prosecutors goes head to head with a defence team while a panel of three judges determines the fate of the Accused the proceedings are inquisitorial in nature, meaning the judges are allowed to question witnesses directly. They sit at the head of the room while witnesses sit alone in a chair in the centre of the court and the two legal teams are placed at either side. During opening arguments, the prosecution team presented their theory that a jealous Jessica Wongso had been motivated to kill Myrna Salahin to avenge the pain she felt over her breakup with Patrick o'. Connor. They believed Jessica had arrived at Olivier Cafe armed with the cyanide and intentionally chose a table out of view of the security cameras, where she used the three gift bags to further shield what she was about to do. Ordering the drinks before her friend's arrival, she administered the cyanide behind the bags and then watched on with barely feigned concern as the poison took its toll on Myrna. The defence team argued there was no evidence to prove any such claims. One of her lawyers stated, it does not make sense that Jessica flew all the way from Australia to Indonesia to murder Myrna. It also does not make sense that Jessica would murder Mina because she had once asked Jessica to end her relationship with her boyfriend at the time. Turning to the judges, he asked, why is Jessica the only one suspected of murder when she did not do anything unusual and nobody witnessed her putting cyanide into the coffee? The defence said the possibility that someone else was responsible for the poisoning couldn't be discounted. A bartender from Olivier Cafe testified to having poured Myrna's iced coffee into an empty water bottle and handing it over to the police for testing. While some staff members recalled that the glass had then been secured in cling wrap and handed to the police too. The bartender testified that he had returned the empty glass to the cafe pantry. Oto Hesibuan pointed out that the police proof of evidence said that cyanide was found in the water bottle as well as the coffee glass. If the bartender's testimony was correct, then what glass had police used for testing? The police had also asked Olivier's manager to provide them with a glass of Vietnamese iced coffee. They could compare to Myrna's Dr. As well as another empty water bottle that they could pour the comparison beverage into. Therefore, if the bartender had misremembered, the police should have had two glasses and two bottles. Yet their brief of evidence inexplicably mentioned just one bottle and two glasses. Given these inconsistencies and the fact that no one else who tasted the drink became severely ill, the defence said it couldn't be ruled out that either the cafe staff or the police could have added the cyanide to the iced coffee after Myrna drank it, but before it was tested. This wasn't an outlandish allegation to make. The Indonesian legal system is notoriously corrupt, with judges and prosecutors known to take bribes from people in positions of power. Rumours had circulated that Myrna's father could have worked with the police to secure a conviction against Jessica at any cost necessary. Although there was absolutely no evidence to support such an allegation, talk of corruption had surrounded the case from the very beginning. The defence also pointed out that Olivier's barista, Ranga Suputra, had disposed of the hot water from the kettle that had been used to make Myrna's iced coffee. They suggested this could have been a deliberate move to ensure the water couldn't be tested for cyanide. Lawyer Oto Hasaboan claimed to have seen a police file with a confession from Ranga Saputra in which he admitted he was hired to kill Myrna, but that this file had mysteriously disappeared. Taking the witness stand, Ranga denied having gotten rid of the hot water that had been used to make Myrna's iced coffee. He then changed his mind and said he wasn't sure if he had. This inconsistency raised some eyebrows about his credibility. But when asked if he'd accepted any money from Myrna's husband, Arif Samarco, to commit the murder, Ranga vehemently denied it. At the time of the trial, he was still employed at Olivier Cafe. If I received the money, I would have quit my job, he stated. The prosecution said it didn't matter if the hot water used to make the iced coffee had been disposed of. Experts testified that if the cyanide was put into hot water, the resulting steam would have given off a strong smell of burnt almonds. And in an enclosed space like the cafe, others who inhaled the steam would have also been poisoned. Given that no one else was affected and even Jessica claimed that the coffee had smelt normal, the cyanide had to have been put into the drink when it was already cold, and the only one who went anywhere near the drink when it was cold was Jessica. Arif Simarco also rejected the allegation that he'd conspired to have Myrna killed, saying he'd never met Ranga before in his life. He testified about how angry Jessica had been at Myrna for suggesting she break up with her boyfriend, and how this had led to Myrna becoming afraid of Jessica's anger and not wanting to meet her alone. Jessica's anger issues were further solidified by the comments she allegedly made to her former boss in Sydney, Kristy Carter. While Kristi didn't give evidence, her statement detailing Jessica's suicide attempts, her threats to kill Christie and her mother, and her comments that she knew the right dosage to kill someone were read to the court. These comments appeared to lend further weight to testimony provided by several psychologists who described Jessica as being intelligent and confident, with a narcissistic personality and a huge impulse to be at the centre of attention. One clinical psychologist who had interviewed Jessica shortly after her arrest said that she was calm in situations where she could anticipate what was coming next. But it was when something unexpected happened that her emotions ignited. Having studied the CCTV footage from Olivier Cafe, this psychologist believed that Jessica showed no signs of panic when Myrna collapsed. Even when Jessica walked over to fetch some water for Myrna, she didn't hurry. A criminologist from the University of Jakarta testified that he'd interviewed Jessica twice at the police station, during which he'd used physiognomy, the practice of assessing a person's character based on their outer appearance. Studying Jessica's facial features and expressions while they spoke, he determined that she had a narcissistic personality and a great desire to be loved. While he didn't find her to have psychopath traits, he did find her to be emotionally unstable, spiteful and unable to tolerate criticism. A criminologist for the defence team refuted that. A criminologist has no place examining an individ individual's gestures without assistance from a psychologist. She told the judges. Physiognomy is only used to describe potential offences or people who have the potential to commit a crime. It can't be used to determine whether someone is guilty. But the major argument for Jessica's innocence stemmed from the results of the toxicology testing, in which only small traces of cyanide were detected in Myrna's stomach several days after her death. The forensic pathologist who examined Myrna's body testified that her stomach and esophagus had turned black, which clearly indicated that she had been poisoned using a very toxic substance. A police toxicology expert told the court that after his expert team conducted a series of tests, he had no doubt that Myrna was killed by the cyanide. But Dr. Jaya Soyaradmaja, a forensic pathologist from the University of Indonesia, testified for the defence that these traces of cyanide in Myrna's stomach had probably come from the embalming chemicals that were used to preserve her body and that there was nothing to disprove that Myrna hadn't died from natural causes. If you don't check all the organs, you can't determine the cause of death. Dr. Admaja stated to the court, that's forensics dogma. We wouldn't know whether Myrna had a stroke, for example, unless you examined her brain. Would the lungs be infected with certain diseases or not? Not to mention the heart. All of these are potential causes of death. Dr. Atmaja also said that one of the tell tale signs of cyanide poisoning is a red discolouration of the skin. When Mina was first brought into the morgue, he said her skin was blue. However, once the news got out that she had died from cyanide poisoning, the photos circulated online and her skin was clearly red. The red tinged photos had been submitted to the court by Myrna's father earlier that day. According to Dr. Atmaja, those photos could have been easily altered, a claim that caused commotion in the courtroom and provoked Mina's father to stand up in shock and voice his outrage. Two other forensic pathologists from Australia supported Dr. Atmaj's testimony that the low levels of cyanide found in Myrna's stomach couldn't rule out the possibility that she had died from natural causes. One said, if you take the toxicology results as they are and the explanation that the very low level of the gastric content was due to post mortem changes, then it is impossible in my view to conclude that the death was due to cyanide poisoning. The less than optimal quality autopsy has failed in its primary duty to the deceased and her family, the accused and the justice system, which is to provide as definitively as possible a cause of death. Another stated plainly, these toxicology results show there is no evidence of cyanide ingestion. By the time Jessica Wongso took the stand in her own defence, the trial had gone on for three and a half months. Hearings had run from morning to night, with some going as late as 2am While it had been an exhausting time for all involved, the defence's evidence appeared to be having an impact on public perception. Jessica had gained more supporters, with many viewing the trial as a farce in which the prosecution was relying on flimsy and unreliable evidence. Others were more convinced of her guilt than ever and resented the defence team's decision to call upon Australian expert witnesses instead of fellow Indonesians. One of the forensic pathologists was even arrested for misusing his tourist visa to testify at the trial and deported to Australia. It was pointed out that nobody seemed to care when this same pathologist had used a tourist visa when he'd been asked to help identify victims of the Bali bombing terrorist attacks back in 2002. As Jessica took her seat in front of the panel of judges, she maintained her trademark calm and composed demeanor. She denied that the conversation in which Myrna had supposedly told her to break up with Patrick had ever even happened, saying she hadn't ever told Mina anything about her relationship. I just told Mina I was close with one guy, she told the judges. I didn't even tell her Patrick's name. One of the prosecutors asked, how could a reef know Patrick's name when you never told Myrna about him? Unfazed, Jessica told the judge he would have to ask Arif that. She also said that 90% of the allegations made by her former boss, Kristy Carter were untrue. Jessica dispelled the rumors that she was a lesbian, stating a lot of the experts statements are untrue and I want to say it firmly that I'm only interested in men in the past, now and in the future. Jessica said she hadn't lied when she told Mina's father that she had ordered mineral water at the cafe that day. Mina had asked for some after tasting the bad coffee and CCTV footage captured Jessica going to get it for her. It just wasn't noted on their bill. She also rejected the claims that Myrna was reluctant or scared to meet with her alone, saying it was Myrna who had initiated several of their catch ups in Sydney. Some compared Jessica's calm demeanour to that of Amanda Knox, an American woman who was wrongfully convicted of murdering her housemate Meredith Kercher, as covered in episode 270 of Casefile. Instead of appearing nervous or intimidated, some thought Jessica was mocking the prosecutors. When one of them asked her whether Vietnamese iced coffee is served hot or cold, Jessica asked sarcastically, well, what do you think? A moment that went viral on social media. Her attitude while giving her testimony only divided members of the public further. As Yohannes Negrojo explained in his article for Foreign Policy, while Jessica's sometimes contemptuous demeanour in court may have won hearts among the middle class, it could only aggravate her image with those prejudiced against her. From the outset, Jessica told the judges she was being vilified by the prosecutors and the press, who had made her entire personal life a topic of discussion. If she acted calm, she was interpreted as being a cold blooded murderer. But if she cried or showed emotion that was Criticised too. Whatever I do is wrong, jessica said. In closing arguments, prosecutors demanded that Jessica be given a 20 year sentence for the sorrow she had caused Myrna's loved ones. They called her sadistic and cruel to have intentionally killed her friend in a way that would have caused great pain and pointed out that she had shown no remorse. The defence countered that Jessica had shown no remorse because she had not committed the crime. After almost five months of hearings, on Thursday, October 27, 2016, the judges delivered their verdict. They concluded there were only three parties that could have possibly put the cyanide in Mina's drink. Olivier, staff, the police, or Jessica Wongso. They ruled out the cafe staff on the basis that the iced coffee had looked completely normal in the CCTV footage and that no other patrons in the cafe had smelt burned almonds or collapsed, supporting the notion that the cyanide had been put in the coffee after it was already cold. Furthermore, the judges believed it was logical to assume that a guilty staff member would have immediately disposed of any evidence rather than handing it over to the police. The fact that Myrna had complained about the taste of the coffee and waved her hand in front of her mouth after drinking it, coupled with the fact that Hani and at least two staff members tasted the coffee and noted it as foul, meant the cyanide was in there before the police arrived. This proved to the judges that the police had not tampered with the evidence or added the cyanide to the coffee after confiscating it with the cafe staff and police ruled out. That just left one explanation. Jessica Wongso was the one who ordered the iced coffee. She was the one who placed the gift bags on the table to obscure the view of the cameras. And she was the only one who had access to the beverage before Myrna drank it. For the premeditated murder of Myrna Salihin, the judges found Jessica Wongso guilty and sentenced her to 20 years in prison. Myrna's loved ones broke down in tears of relief while Jessica maintained her composure. She looked at the judge and said, thank you, your Honour. I don't accept the verdict. Her lawyer, Oto Hasaboan, was shaken. He told the court, because the judge's decision is unfair, biased and definitely not according to the law. This trial has sounded the death knell for justice. As a result, we firmly announce that we'll file an appeal. With that, a round of applause and cheering erupted outside court. Mina's father told reporters that even though he hoped Jessica would get the death sentence, he respected the judge's decision. The most important thing is that it has been proven that Jessica has killed Myrna, he said. Jessica's legal team immediately filed an appeal, arguing that the judges had ignored key evidence that cast significant doubt on whether Mina had actually died from cyanide poisoning and if she had, whether Jessica was the perpetrator. They argued that the testimony from Jessica's former boss and the CCTV footage taken from Olivier Cafe should never have been admitted in court. The prosecution hadn't aired the original footage, only a police copy, and the original had never been given to the defence. They argued that the footage could have been tampered with or certain frames could have been deleted. Jessica's appeal was rejected by both the High Court and the Supreme Court, sparking further debate about whether or not she had received a fair trial. Many believed that the judges had made their minds up about her guilt from the very beginning and were too quick to believe the prosecution's version of events without adequate evidence to support it. One of the trial judges even said so in an interview with Tempo magazine just days after the verdict was delivered. For me, this case was very simple, he said. The relationship between the defendant and the victim was very close. A person who poisons another person is acquainted with that person. Just look at it from when Jessica came until she ordered a drink. That's the extent of it. The poison was put in when the drink was cold. If cyanide is put into hot water, everyone around would have been poisoned by inhaling the steam. It is as simple as that. Simon Butt is a professor of Indonesian law at the University of Sydney Law School. After examining the case against Jessica Wongso in detail, he concluded that her trial was not fair based on the standards of the Indonesian legal system. He found that police had interrogated Jessica without a lawyer present, searched her parents house without a warrant, detained her without reasonable cause, failed to order a full autopsy to establish Myrna's cause of death, and mishandled, perhaps even contaminated, the coffee they claimed killed Myrna. In the new Criminal Law Review, Professor Simon Butt wrote that procedural irregularities and legal mistakes plagued Wong Tzu's case from the very beginning. He argued that the prosecution fell well short of meeting the evidentiary standard. While the court paid insufficient, arguably no regard to the defence. He suggested the judges may have been swayed to convict due to public pressure, noting they swallowed the prosecution's case and drew strange conclusions from Wong Tso's demeanour without properly addressing significant holes in the evidence. Rejecting the possibility of natural causes, the court instead relied on process of elimination reasoning In 2023, Netflix released a documentary on the contentious case titled Ice Cold Murder, Coffee and Jessica Wongso, which featured exclusive interviews with several important figures, including Mina's father and lawyers from both the prosecution and defence teams. The highly anticipated film propelled the case back into the spotlight and gained international attention, leading to renewed discussion about whether or not Jessica Wongso had been wrongfully convicted. The film put Jessica in a sympathetic light, leading to a shift in public opinion, despite criticism about its lack of journalistic rigour and balance, with some critics labelling the documentary as sensationalistic. The following year, in August 2024, Jessica was granted parole, having served just eight years of her 20 year sentence. Officials said their decision had nothing to do with the Netflix documentary, but was based on Jessica's good behaviour, which included her teaching English and yoga to other prisoners. The now 36 year old walked straight into a press conference saying she didn't have anything planned for her release, but she had forgiven everyone who wronged her. In May 2025, Jessica agreed to participate in an exclusive interview with Australian journalist Liam bartlett for Channel 7's Spotlight program. It was a highly anticipated interview that attracted millions of viewers. As had become her trademark, Jessica didn't appear at all ruffled by any of Liam's direct questions and was able to laugh off or explain away any uncomfortable moments. She also appeared to have backtracked on her claims about her friendship with Myrna, saying, we weren't close at all, it was because we came from the same country. That was why we kind of like know each other. We weren't best friends or anything. Jessica told Liam she never scoped out Olivier Cafe for security cameras and that if the footage made it appear that way, it was only because she was looking around at the place and people. As for the gift bags that she moved around the table, Jessica smiled as she said, that's just me being me, you know, being bored. It really doesn't mean anything at all. She said the fact that the bags shielded the drinks from the security cameras was a pure coincidence. Liam asked to Jessica why she was scratching her hands on the CCTV footage while Mina was getting first aid. Jessica explained it as a habit of hers, stating it's not because it's itchy or something from poison or something like that. Liam jumped in. I'm not saying that, he clarified, you made the suggestion. I'm just saying you're standing there scratching your hands but you're not helping. It was yet another awkward moment that Jessica managed to brush off. She said she had never heard of cyanide before Myrna's death, prompting Liam to point out it was therefore strange that she had contacted Myrna's twin sister the day after Myrna died and asked about the results of the toxicology tests. Jessica explained she knew that samples had been taken and she was simply curious to know how Myrna had died. As for the restraining order her ex boyfriend Patrick had taken out against her, Jessica said the story was complicated and not like it sounds, explaining the relationship was kind of like toxic in a way. We didn't really see eye to eye on a lot of things. Jessica said she had no idea why people said that Myrna was afraid to be alone around her. Asked if she had the potential to be violent, Jessica laughed and said, no, of course not. What would I do? Liam told Jessica he wondered why she didn't get an invite to Myrna and Arif's wedding. She began to stammer, saying, because I was in Australia, I couldn't be bothered to like fly over just to attend their wedding. Liam pressed on, saying, but you didn't get that choice, did you? She didn't invite you. Jessica looked stunned, pausing for a moment before saying, I can't remember. Didn't she invite me? I can't even remember. She burst into giggles when Liam asked her about the time she drove her car into the nursing home. When he said she was lucky that she didn't die, Jessica responded, yeah, do you think I'm lucky? After everything I've been through, you think I'm lucky? Jessica Wongso will be held on parole in Jakarta until 2032. She maintains her innocence in Myrna's murder and has filed a judicial review against her conviction in the hopes that she will be officially exonerated from the crime. In the meantime, Spotlight reported that she is trying to make a living as an influencer with brand deals coming in from beauty, food and tech companies. Indonesia's largest coffee chain, Kanangung Coffee, has even reached out to her about collaborating with them. Jessica told Liam Bartlett she couldn't imagine working a regular office job after everything that she'd been through. When he quipped that no one would trust her to do the coffee run, she laughed heartily. The question of whether or not Jessica Wongso is guilty of murdering Myrna Salihin is still debated. Almost a decade later. Professor Simon Butt stated in his journal article whether she is guilty or innocent, Wong So should not have been convicted, as has been shown, her trial was unfair, as was her treatment by police. Wong so's case illustrates that Indonesia's laws of criminal procedure require an urgent overhaul to better protect the rights of suspects and defendants, though this is unlikely in the foreseeable future. Some view Jessica as an innocent victim of Indonesia's broken justice system, while others see her as a cold blooded and manipulative killer masquerading as the victim. Indonesian news presenter Timothy Mabun, who hosted a daily show covering Jessica's trial for the Compass TV network, likened Jessica to a villain from a film. He told Australia's 60 Minutes, when you watch a movie, when the villain is that good, you don't even want them to die. Myrna Selihin's loved ones have never swayed from their belief that Jessica was responsible for Myrna's death. Her father, Eddie Selihin, told Netflix he is a million percent sure that Jessica is guilty, saying deep inside her something is evil. Myrna's twin sister Sandy, moved to the German countryside with her husband to distance herself from the case and find some peace. Myrna's husband, Arif Simarco, has remarried and no longer publicly discusses the case. However, back in 2016, when Jessica's trial was underway, he fondly told reporters how he had first met Myrna in 2006. They got to know each other over the course of the year before they started dating. Arif cried as he recalled how happy he'd been during their courtship, saying, I was so happy to meet Myrna. She changed my life so much. She also introduced me to God. She was kind to everyone, she didn't discriminate and she treated everyone equally. He proudly recalled watching Myrna in the lead up to their wedding, in awe of her creativity as she designed the small details of their wedding decorations. Arif told reporters that despite the public focus on Jessica, when people follow the case, I always think of Myrna. Sam.

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