Lindsay Sandiford, 56, from Gloucestershire, was today sentenced to
death by firing squad in Indonesia for attempting for smuggle cocaine worth
$2.5 million in her suitcase onto the resort island of Bali. State prosecutors
had called for the housewife to be jailed for 15 years but was told today that
she would be put to death for her crime.
death by firing squad in Indonesia for attempting for smuggle cocaine worth
$2.5 million in her suitcase onto the resort island of Bali. State prosecutors
had called for the housewife to be jailed for 15 years but was told today that
she would be put to death for her crime.
Lindsay had claimed in court that she was
forced to take the drugs into the country by a gang that was threatening to
hurt her children but the court wasn’t interested in her reasons. She was
arrested in May 2012 when customs officers at Bali’s airport discovered 3.8
kilograms of cocaine in the lining of her luggage. Two other British citizens
and an Indian have already been convicted and sentenced to prison in connection
with the bust. Lindsay plans to appeal the sentence.
