Monday 28 May 2012

British housewife, 56, arrested for 'smuggling cocaine worth £1.6million on to Indonesian island of Bali' | Mail Online

British housewife, 56, arrested for 'smuggling cocaine worth £1.6million on to Indonesian island of Bali' | Mail Online:

Four Britons - including housewife, 56 - face death penalty for 'smuggling cocaine worth £1.6m on to Indonesian island of Bali'

  • Drugs weighing 4.7kg 'found in lining of woman's suitcase' at airport
  • Police believe three Britons and an Indian man were waiting on the island to receive the haul
  • Officials said Lindsay Sandiford was part of 'big international network'
  • They said that despite her 'unassuming appearance' she had worked for the narcotics syndicate for a long time
  • She said she had only agreed to smuggle drugs because her children were being threatened back in England
  • Maximum sentence for drug trafficking in Indonesia is death by firing squad
  • More than 140 criminals are currently on death row in the country
  • Bali was once a haven for drugs but in the past ten years the authorities have cracked down on such crimes
  • Distressed: Alleged drug trafficker identified as Lindsay Sandiford in front of the huge pile of cocaine at the Customs Office in Denpasar, Bali, today

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