What does jihadist Neil Prakash, now jailed in Turkey, alleged drug mule Cassandra Sainsbury, jailed in Colombia and ex-Waverley college schoolboy, John Zakhariev jailed in Bulgaria have in common?
What, for that matter did executed drug dealers Chan and Sukumaran, Schapelle Corby, about to be released from some 12 years of imprisonment in Bali and deported back to Australia, and Guantanamo prisoner David Hicks have in common?
They are/were all Australian passport holders and after arrest in a foreign country on serious charges appealed to the Australian government for assistance, which under the reassuring phrase ‘consular assistance’ was, in most cases forthcoming.
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