Australian woman’s two-word excuse for allegedly stealing two laptops from a Bali shop – as she’s thrown back into hellhole prison

The Australian woman accused of stealing two bags of laptops in Bali has blamed ‘pain drugs’ for her alleged actions after it was suggested in court she was drunk when she was arrested.

Vanessa Louise Crimmins, 45, is accused of stealing bags containing an HP laptop and a MacBook Air from outside Popular Deli, a supermarket in North Kuta, on October 30.

Ms Crimmins, who had no legal representation, attended the Denpasar District Court on Thursday where she heard charges against her read out and witness statements into the alleged thefts.

Police and a store security supervisor also claimed she appeared “drunk” when they went to arrest Ms Crimmins.

“We couldn’t communicate with her,” the head of security told the court.

“She likes to get drunk or something, I’m not sure. Later she pretended to be asleep.”

Police also claimed there were a number of empty beer bottles lying around Ms Crimmins.

As the hearing was wrapping up, a journalist approached Ms Crimmins and asked if she was ‘afraid of what she was doing’ and if she was under the influence of alcohol.

“No, painkillers,” Mrs. Crimmins replied.

When asked if she “regretted what she did”, Ms Crimmins said “very much”.

Earlier, as she was led into court, Ms Crimmins also responded to journalists who tried to question her, although at other times she tried to hide her face behind a pink fan.

“I didn’t do anything wrong,” she said.

‘Big mistake, big mistake.’

During the hearing, prosecutor Lintang Jendro Rahmadita read out the indictment he saw Ms Crimmins is charged with section 362 of the Criminal Code on theft, which could see her jailed for up to five years.

As she was escorted to the Denpasar court on Thursday, Ms Crimmins said she had done “nothing wrong”.

Ms Crimmins faces up to five years in prison if found guilty of the thefts and laptop thefts

As Ms Crimmins answered some questions from reporters outside the court, she also tried to hide her face

The court heard from several witnesses, including the owners of the allegedly stolen laptops, Ardi Nurcahyadi, 42, from Jakarta, and Ni Nyoman Ari Purwaningsih, a student at Denpasar University, 24.

Both bags were said to have been stolen within 90 minutes from 7.30am after being left outside the store.

After one of the men alerted Popular Deli’s security chief that their bag had been taken, he examined the CCTV footage.

It allegedly showed Ms Crimmins taking the man’s bag and about an hour later a second bag from outside the store.

Police claimed that after Ms Crimmins’ arrest, they carried out a search of the North Kuta villa where she was staying and found the stolen bags and computers.

Ms Crimmins, who works as a teacher, will appear in court on January 23 where she will make a statement.

It remains unclear whether Ms Crimmins lived in Bali or was simply visiting.

After the hearing, she was taken back to Bali’s infamous Kerobokan prison.

Until recently, two members of the Bali Nine drug smuggling gang were held in prison.

Si Yi Chen and Matthew Norman served their sentences in Kerobokan before returning to Australia earlier this month.

Bali Nine leaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran also spent their sentences on Kerobokan’s death row before being executed in 2015.

It is also where compatriot Schapelle Corby served most of her nine-year prison sentence after trying to smuggle 4.1kg of marijuana in her bodyboard bag through Denpasar Airport in 2004.