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Daily Mail
February 5, 2015
With her hand resting on her growing baby bump and her face betraying the strain of her impending murder trial, the pregnant US teenager accused of murdering her socialite mother was back in court in Bali today.
Heather Mack, 19, and her boyfriend Tommy Schaefer, 21, negotiated a media scrum as they arrived at for their latest hearing in Denpasar on the Indonesian island.
The pair, both from Chicago in the US, are accused of killing Sheila von Wiese-Mack and stuffing her body in a suitcase. They face a firing squad if they are found guilty.
Seven-months pregnant Heather’s baby bump was clearly visible as she sat pensively waiting in the courtroom for proceedings to commence.
Dressed in matching orange prison vests and white shirts, Mack and Schaefer were handcuffed to each other as they arrived at court.
The pair were sent to the island’s notorious Kerobokan Prison in December ahead of today’s appearance.
They were arrested in August following the gruesome discovery of the badly beaten body of Mack’s 62-year-old mother stuffed inside a suitcase that had been loaded into a taxi outside the luxury St Regis Hotel in Nusa Dua.
The accused are being tried separately with the same judges and prosecuting teams at the Denpasar District Court.
Prosecutors charged them with premeditated murder, which carries a maximum penalty of death.
The couple’s lawyers said last week that the prosecutors’ indictment contained inaccuracies that could lead to multiple interpretations of the suspects’ activities and the crime scene, raising questions of whether other people had entered the victim’s room and killed her.
Lawyers for Mack claim the killing was not premeditated and that she hid in the bathroom while her mother was bludgeoned to death in her hotel room.
They also object to the citing of communications between the defendants on cellphones as evidence of premeditated murder, arguing that cellphone communications are prone to manipulation.
