PORT Macquarie's Robyn Davis had to disguise herself as an Indonesian last week to break through the media storm outside Bali's Kerobokan prison where her son, Bali 9 inmate Matthew Norman, is sentenced to spend the rest of his life.
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She made the dash to the island in a bid to join the growing campaign against the execution of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. Today, Robyn is resolved their fate has now been delivered.
Both Chan and Sukumaran are bound for Nusakambangan island, the place where they are to be executed by firing squad within 72 hours of their arrival.
Ms Davis suspected there was little hope for the boys whose prison cells had been stripped bare during her visit.
"It is going to happen. We never thought it would, but it is," Robyn told the Port News.
Ms Davis spent a painfully brief amount of time with her son Matthew, talking about things she says 'were not important' in a bid to distract their grief and despair about the impending execution of two of their own.
She also spent a moment with Chan and Sukumaran. The boys, she says, know what's coming.
"They are all a bit shaky. I didn't get to spend much time with (Matthew) but I did what I had to do over there," Ms Davis said.
"The media are like maggots outside the prison. I had to disguise myself as an Indo to get in. The guards know who I am and got me through to avoid the media.
"It is just so depressing. The atmosphere is so different over there at the moment. Even the guards have gone all quiet.
"I just want to be able to remember the boys the way they are. And it's time for me to slow down and start taking care of myself.
"It has been a long 10 years."
She remains vehemently critical of the corruption that allows the drug trade to openly thrive on the streets of Bali.
"They say they want to clean up Bali. I don't think they do - there's too much money in it for them," Ms Davis said.
"If you take drugs into Bali you get sentenced to 20 years. Try and take the rubbish out and you end up executed.
"When Matthew was arrested they told us that if we had $1.2 million they would let him go. We didn't have that sort of money. We were just ordinary people."
Matthew Norman has been sentenced to a life in prison for his involvement in the attempt to export heroin out of Bali in 2005.
February 16: Bali 9 mum Robyn Davis makes mercy dash
