- Sandiford could avoid death penalty thanks to new Indonesian law
- She is detained at Kerobokan Prison in Bali and is known as the “queen” of the prison.
Drug-dealing grandmother Lindsay Sandiford could escape the firing squad if she survives another year in prison, having already served 12 years.
New Indonesian legislation could reduce Sandiford’s death sentence to prison time.
The 67-year-old British grandmother has been detained since 2012 in a cell at Kerobokan prison in Bali, the Indonesian capital, for attempted cocaine trafficking..
A prison source told the Mirror that inmates had been informed of the new law and that authorities intended to respect it.
An Indonesian woman jailed for corruption said Sandiford was considered 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 £1.6million into Bali.
The 67-year-old British grandmother is reportedly getting special treatment at Bali’s Kerobokan Prison as the prison’s ‘queen’ and teaching knitting lessons to inmates.
Examples of the special treatment given to drug mules would 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 scared people away with his “rude” and “antagonistic” persona.
Sandiford was caught arriving in Bali with £10.16 of the Class A drug worth £1.6 million.
Having never been convicted, she claimed she was forced by a UK-based drug syndicate to smuggle cocaine from Thailand to Bali, threatening the life of one of her two sons in Britain. Brittany.
Although she cooperated with authorities to arrest union officials, she was sentenced to death. Human rights lawyer and former UK Director of Public Prosecutions Ken Macdonald said she had been treated with “utterly extraordinary severity”.
