Lindsay Sandiford was Arrested in 2012 for Smuggling Drugs Worth $2.5 million from the Capital of Thai into the resort Bali, indonesia ,
The 56 year old Grandmother was sentenced to Death Yesterday which will end up to be a life sentence, After her arrest she was kept at the cells at Denpasar police station before being transferred to Kerobokan jail.
The death sentence handed down to her yesterday came as shock to many in Bali. Her co-accused had got much lighter sentences.
Sandiford is now one of four foreigners on death row in Kerobokan Jail.
Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, from the Bali Nine drug smuggling ring, are on death row, having lost all their legal appeals against the penalty. They have lodged clemency pleas with Indonesia’s President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, but have no answer yet. And a Nigerian drug trafficker is also on death row and in a similar situation.
Sandiford will now face years of appeals and waiting before she knows her eventual fate.
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