Appearing in court via audio-visual link from a prison in Sydney on Wednesday, the 27-year-old lawyer Ashlyn Nassif, wearing an orange tie-dyed top, waved through a pair of handcuffs to the large contingent of family watching in the public gallery.
Her mother, partner, sister and brother-in-law were all there, having agreed to put up a $2.6m surety to secure her release. Absent was her father, a colourful Sydney property developer whose company, Toplace, is the owner of a multimillion-dollar apartment complex named Skyview at the centre of the police investigation.
