Jessica's lawyer Otto Hasibuan said her client was released early after receiving an almost-five-year remission for having "good behavior".
essica Kumala Wongso, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the premeditated murder of her friend Wayan Mirna Salihin at a coffee shop in Central Jakarta in 2016, was released on parole on Sunday after serving eight years in prison.
Jessica's lawyer Otto Hasibuan said her client was released early after receiving an almost-five-year remission for having "good behavior".
Jessica is now required to regularly report to parole officers in a detention center in East Jakarta until 2032, he added.
Otto went on to say that Jessica planned to file a judicial review over her verdict, claiming that his team had found several new pieces of evidence in the high-profile case.
"We have discussed this matter with Jessica. We respect the court decision [...] but we feel that the verdict did not align with our version of events, so we will try to file a judicial review," he said on Sunday as reported by Kompas.
In October 2016, the Central Jakarta District Court found Jessica guilty of premeditated murder by lacing Mirna's coffee with cyanide. Then 27-year-old Jessica, however, persistently maintained that she was innocent.
Widely referred to as the “cyanide coffee case” because of Mirna’s possible cause of death, the incident created a months-long media circus and drew millions of viewers on national television.
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