The Australian woman accused of stealing two bags containing laptops in Bali has blamed “painkillers” for her alleged actions after it was suggested in court that she was drunk when she was arrested.
Vanessa Louise Crimmins, 45, is accused of stealing bags containing an HP laptop and a MacBook Air outside Popular Deli, a supermarket in northern Kuta, on October 30.
Ms Crimmins, who had no legal representation, attended the Denpasar District Court on Thursday, where she heard the charges against her read and testimony from witnesses to the alleged robberies.
Police and the store’s head of security also alleged that when they went to arrest Crimmins she appeared “drunk.”
“We were unable to contact her,” the security chief told the court.
She likes drunk or something, I’m not sure. Later he pretended to sleep.
Police also claimed there were several empty beer bottles around Crimmins.
As the hearing was concluding, a reporter approached Ms. Crimmins and asked her if she “recounted what she did” and if she was under the influence of alcohol.
Vanessa Louise Crimmins, 45, is accused of stealing bags containing an HP laptop and a MacBook Air from where they had been left outside Popular Deli, a supermarket in northern Kuta, on October 30.
“No, painkillers,” Mrs. Crimmins replied.
When asked if she “regretted what she did”, Ms Crimmins replied “very much”.
Earlier, when being brought to court, Ms Crimmins also responded to journalists attempting to question her, although on other occasions she attempted to hide her face behind a pink fan.
“I didn’t do anything wrong,” he said.
“Big mistake, big mistake.”
During the hearing, prosecutor Lintang Jendro Rahmadita read the indictment in which Crimmins was charged with robbery under article 362 of the Penal Code, which could carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

As she was escorted to Denpasar District Court on Thursday, Ms Crimmins claimed she had done “nothing wrong”.

Crimmins could face up to five years in prison if convicted of the abuse and laptop theft.

As Ms Crimmins answered some questions from reporters outside the court, she also attempted to hide her face.
The court heard from several witnesses, including the owners of the allegedly stolen laptops, Jakarta citizen Ardi Nurcahyadi, 42, and Denpasar University student Ni Nyoman Ari Purwaningsih, 24.
Both bags were allegedly stolen within a 90-minute period from 7.30am after being left outside the store.
After one of the men alerted Popular Deli’s security chief that their purse had been taken, he searched the CCTV footage.
It allegedly showed Ms Crimmins taking the man’s bag and then another about an hour later from outside the store.
Police alleged that after arresting Ms Crimmins, they carried out a search at the North Kuta villa where she was staying and found the stolen bags and computers.
Ms Crimmins, who works as a teacher, is scheduled to appear in court on January 23, where she will give evidence.
It is unclear whether Mrs Crimmins was residing in Bali or was simply visiting.
After the hearing she was taken back to the infamous Kerobokan prison in Bali.
Until recently, the prison housed two members of the Bali Nine drug trafficking network.
Si Yi Chen and Matthew Norman served their sentences at Kerobokan before returning to Australia earlier this month.
Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran also served their sentences on Kerobokan death row before being executed in 2015.
It is also where fellow Australian Schapelle Corby served most of her nine-year prison sentence after attempting to smuggle 4.1kg of marijuana in her bodyboard bag through Denpasar airport in 2004.