British drug smuggler Lindsay Sandiford, 67, who has been on death row for a decade, could be ‘spared from the firing squad if she can survive another year in prison’
- Sandiford could avoid the death penalty under new Indonesian law
- She is held in Kerobokan Prison in Bali and is known as the ‘queen’ of the prison
Grandmother of drug smuggler Lindsay Sandiford could be spared a firing squad if she survives another year in prison after already serving 12 years.
New Indonesian legislation could reduce Sandiford’s sentence from the death penalty to prison.
The British 67-year-old grandmother has been in a cell at the Kerobokan prison in the Indonesian capital Bali since 2012 for an attempt to smuggle cocaine..
A prison source told the Mirror that prisoners had been informed of the new law and that authorities planned to follow it.
An Indonesian woman jailed for corruption said Sandiford was seen as the “queen” of the prison.
Lindsay Sandiford could avoid the death penalty if she survives another year in prison under new Indonesian law
Pictured: Sandiford as a young woman. She was sentenced to death in 2013 after trying to smuggle cocaine worth £1.6 million into Bali.
The 67-year-old British grandmother is said to receive special treatment in Bali’s Kerobokan prison as the ‘queen’ of the prison and gives knitting lessons to prisoners
Examples of the drug mule’s special treatment include the ability to order a medium-rare steak once a week.
But she added that the grandmother had given knitting lessons to her fellow inmates.
Others said Sandiford scares people away with her “foul mouth” and “antagonistic” personality.
Sandiford was caught flying to Bali with £10.16 of the Class A drug worth £1.6 million.
Having no previous convictions, she claimed she was forced by a British-based drug syndicate to smuggle cocaine from Thailand to Bali due to threats on the life of one of her two sons in Britain.
Despite cooperating with authorities in an attempt to arrest those higher up in the syndicate, she was given a death sentence, with human rights lawyers and former British prosecutor Ken Macdonald saying she had been treated with ‘quite extraordinary severity’.