A 69-year-old British woman who was sentenced to death by firing squad in Indonesia more than a decade ago is now set to be repatriated to the UK following an agreement between the British and Indonesian governments. Lindsay Sandiford, who was arrested in May 2012 for attempting to smuggle approximately 4.7 kg of cocaine into Bali, has spent the past 12 years on the island's notorious Kerobokan Prison.
Sandiford was found guilty of drug trafficking after the detection of a large haul of narcotics concealed in a false bottom of her suitcase when she arrived at Bali's Ngurah Rai Airport on a flight from Thailand. At her trial in January 2013, a panel of Indonesian judges handed her the maximum penalty — death by firing squad — citing Indonesia's strict laws on drug offences.
