Sentence: Lindsay Sandiford has pleaded for Indonesian authorities
to "get her execution over with" after accepting she will face the
firing squad
A British grandmother drugs mule on death row in Bali has said she
wants to "get it over with" after accepting she will face the firing
squad.
Lindsay Sandiford, 58, was sentenced to death in 2013
after being convicted of smuggling £1.6million of cocaine from Bangkok
to Bali the year before.
Sandiford last night broke down in tears
after learning that a close friend and eight other drug offenders will
be executed this week, reported the Mail on Sunday.
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Behind Bars: Lindsay Sandiford was sentenced to death two years ago
On hearing the news that her friend Australian drug gang leader Andrew Chan,
and the eight others, were to be killed this week on the Indonesian
"Execution Island" Nusa Kambangan she reportedly told a friend: "I just
want to get it over with."
Sandiford, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire,
faces execution, despite the prosecution recommending she should be
sentenced to 17 years in prison after she helped snare the leaders of
the syndicate she acted as mule for.
She was refused funding for
an appeal against her sentence by the British Foreign Office and by
yesterday a Facebook page set up to try to raise the thousands of pounds
needed had just £700.
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High Security: Indonesian soldiers stand guard under a tower outside the Kerobokan prison in Denpasar, Bali
Chan’s brother Michael told Sandiford in a text message that
the nine executions will happen on Tuesday evening, reported the Mail on
Sunday.
Authorities in Indonesia have said all 58 foreign drug
convicts currently in prison there will be executed by the end of the
year.
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Death Sentence: Sandiford is expected to be executed before the end of the year, along with 57 other foreigners
Sandiford, who struck up a friendship with Chan in Kerobokan
Prison, told a friend she was heartbroken at news of his imminent death.
She said: "If they kill someone as good as Andrew, what hope is there for me?"
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Drugs Mastermind: Australia Andrew Chan of the "Bali Nine" heroin smugglers
"I just want to get it over with. I feel like just giving up," she added.
Chan was sentenced to death in 2005 for leading the " Bali Nine " heroin smuggling plot has converted to Christianity and was ordained in prison.
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Drug Boss: Julian Pounder listens to his lawyer from a holding cell before his drugs possession trial at a court in Denpasar
He was transferred to the death island in March but has
written to Sandiford three times since saying he is not afraid to die
but is scared of the bullets and fears it won't be quick.
Sandiford has always insisted she was forced into the crime by a drugs gang who threatened her sons.
After
being caught she took part in a police sting that caught the gang
leaders, including the alleged overall boss Julian Ponder, 44, a former
Brighton antiques dealer, who got a six-year sentence.
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