SCHAPELLE Corby has cut off her hair, exchanging her flowing brown locks for a new "butch" look in what a witness described as a possible ritual ceremony.

Her hair did not stay buried for long, however. Corby suddenly decided to dig up the shorn locks after Bali Nine drug mule and fellow inmate Renae Lawrence told her she should try to sell them on eBay.

New Idea spoke to a former Kerobokan inmate, Michelle Jolanda, who said she watched Corby cut her hair off.

"One moment she was the Schapelle we all knew, the next she looked very butch," Jolanda said.

As Corby buried the hair, she "uttered some words that sounded like she was delivering her hair back to nature", Jolanda said.

Lawrence then told Corby she should offer the locks on eBay. "It should fetch a lot of money," Lawrence reportedly said. "You'll get offers from men - and women - all over Australia."

Corby, who "doesn't like getting her hands dirty" according to Jolanda, paid an Indonesian inmate to wash the cropped hair free of the mud clinging to it after it was buried.

"Then she spent hours combing it out and making it all lovely and shiny again," Jolanda said.

Corby, however, is having second thoughts. "She liked the new short style at first," Jolanda said, "but then she hated it and now can't wait for it to grow."

Jolanda also revealed that while Corby tries to stay in shape, she has a weakness for food - especially Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Under a prisoner exchange agreement currently being drafted, Corby could be entitled to serve out her sentence in Australia. There have been some reports that she would prefer to stay in her Bali cell.

CONVICTED drug smuggler Schapelle Corby and her half-brother have been exchanging letters of support from their prison cells.

The siblings' mother Rosleigh Rose said her children had been sending letters since James Sioeli Kisina, 18, was remanded in custody in January after his alleged involvement in a violent home invasion and for drug offences.

Kisina is charged with two counts of deprivation of liberty, two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and one count of robbery while armed in company.

He was also charged with producing a dangerous drug, possessing a dangerous drug, possession of anything used in the commission of a crime and entering a dwelling with intent to commit an indictable offence.

Kisina has been in custody since January and could spend a further six months in jail. A trial date has not been fixed. Corby was sentenced to 20 years in Bali's Kerobokan jail for attempting to smuggle 4.1kg of cannabis. "They have been communicating via letters," Ms Rose said outside court yesterday. "And James is attempting to improve his life through courses."

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