Bali Nine drug smuggler Renae Lawrence returned home to Newcastle on Thursday, after being released from Bangli prison in Indonesia, where she has spent the last 13 years behind bars.
After landing in Brisbane early Thursday, the 41-year-old arrived in Newcastle, north of Sydney, just before midday. Reports stated that after landing Lawrence ran through the airport to a car, where she was joined by family and friends before leaving the airport.
NSW Police said last week there were "two outstanding warrants" for a 41-year-old woman related to a high speed chase in a stolen car from before Lawrence travelled to Bali in 2005, but police did not detain her at the airport on Thursday.
NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller indicated on Tuesday that police would negotiate with Lawrence's lawyers "to bring her in and have those warrants satisfied".
Lawrence was freed from prison by the Indonesian government on Wednesday. She was caught with 2.7kg of heroin at Bali airport in 2005, and was subsequently sentenced to 20 years in jail as part of a conspiracy to import 8.2kg of the drug. Lawrence's good behaviour behind bars led authorities to cut almost seven years off her sentence.
Bali Nine ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were executed in 2015, despite pleas from the Australian government and campaigns in Australia to spare the men. Five other members of the nine are still serving life sentences in Indonesia, while one, Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen, died of cancer.