Court ignores luggage tampering in drugs trial

A recent case of luggage tampering at Sydney Airport won't be considered at Schapelle Corby's drug smuggling trial in Bali, the chief judge says.

Judge Linton Sirait, the head of the three-judge panel hearing Corby's trial in the Denpasar District Court, says the court does not have to consider details of the tampering.

However, he believed defence lawyers might still try to use the incident to back up Corby's claim that Brisbane baggage handlers planted 4.1kg of cannabis inside her unlocked bag for pick up in Sydney.

A Qantas baggage handler at Sydney Airport was sacked on Friday for removing the head of a camel costume from a passenger's luggage and wearing it on the tarmac.

Sirait said the court did not have to consider information from Australia in relation to Corby's case.

Corby, a 27-year-old former beauty student from the Gold Coast, faces a possible death sentence if found guilty of trying to smuggle drugs into Bali in her unlocked bag last October.