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Movies Drug Smuggling Gran Ready to Face Firing Squad in Bali

Death Row Drug Smuggling Gran Lindsay Sandiford 'Ready to Face Firing Squad' in Bali

In January, 2013, Lindsay Sandiford was convicted of drug smuggling and sentenced to death in the Indonesian paradise island of Bali - she has been on death row ever since


Daily Mirror UK, 30 SEP 2020





Like many other grans, Lindsay Sandiford spends her days quietly knitting - but the difference between her and other grandmothers is she knits behind bars.


The 64-year-old has spent almost eight years locked up in the notorious Kerobokan Prison on the paradise island of Bali in Indonesia.

Former legal secretary Lindsay was convicted of drug smuggling in January 2013, a crime punishable by death by firing squad in Indonesia.

Since her sentencing, Lindsay has launched several appeals against her gruesome fate, all of them unsuccessful, and now she remains behind bars, waiting for death.

She has long since exhausted her funds to pay her legal costs and is said to spend her time knitting items that can be sold to pay for her solicitors.




Lindsay has been teaching other prisoners to knit


For seven long years British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford has been locked up in jail on the paradise island of Bali. In 2013 she was found with £1.6million of cocaine in her suitcase, which she was trying to smuggle into Indonesia.

The punishment in Indonesia is brutal - most drug smuglers and dealers are sentenced to death. And the execution method is terrifying - firing squad. Prisoners are led to a grassy area where they can choose to sit or stand before armed soldiers then take their shots, aiming for the heart. But if a prisoner surivives the firing squad, the commader must then shoot them in the head.

Indonesia carries out executions infrequently with most prisoners waiting on death row for more than 10 years. The last death penalties carried out in Indonesia took place in 2015 and 130 people, including Lindsay Sandiford, are waiting to be executed.

Former legal secretary Sandiford, from Redcar in the North East UK, had worked in management for many years at a law firm in Cheltenham. She rented a house in the town but was evicted when she didn't pay her rent. The mum-of-two, who had separated from her husband, made the decision to move to India in 2012.





It was as she arrived in Bali from Bangkok in Thailand on May 19, 2012, that she was arrested after the huge haul of cocaine was found in her luggage. Sandiford insisted she had been forced to carry the Class A drugs by a criminal gang, who had threatened to hurt her family if she refused.

However, the gran dramatically changed her story when she was told she would receive the death penalty if she was convicted of drug trafficking. She broke down and told officers that she had been asked to carry the drugs by an antiques dealer, Julian Ponder, who was British and living in Bali, and his partner Rachel Dougall. Sandiford even agreed to take part in a police sting to catch the pair, along with a third person, Paul Beales.

Ponder's home was searched and both he and Sandiford were charged with drug trafficking. There was no evidence linking Dougall and Beales to the same crime and they were charged with lesser offences.

Sandiford's legal team argued that she had been pressured into carrying the drugs and had suffered from mental health problems. Their pleas fell on deaf ears and she was convicted - although even the prosecution pleaded for her to be jailed for 15 years rather than sentenced to death.





Kerobokan Prison where Lindsay is being held (Image: Getty)



Dougall was found guilty of failing to report a crime and jailed for a year, while Beales was convicted of possessing hashish and locked up for four years. Ponder was cleared of drug smuggling but convicted of the possession of narcotics and sentenced to six years behind bars.

Despite the prosecution's pleas, on 22 January 2013, judges sentenced her to death.




Sandiford appealed against the decision but she had no money left to pay for a legal team.


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