{"id":36396,"date":"2013-04-08T11:52:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T08:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=36396"},"modified":"2013-04-08T11:52:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T08:52:48","slug":"british-woman-bali-courtlindsay-sandiford-loses-death-penalty-appeal-in-supreme-court-uk-news-36396","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/british-woman-bali-courtlindsay-sandiford-loses-death-penalty-appeal-in-supreme-court-uk-news-36396\/","title":{"rendered":"British Woman Bali Court:Lindsay Sandiford loses death penalty appeal in Supreme Court \/ UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford sentenced to death in Bali for trafficking cocaine has lost her appeal supreme court.<\/h1>\n

British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford, 56, was sentenced to capital punishment in January for taking almost\u00a05kg (10.6lb) of cocaine onto the Bali island.<\/p>\n

She launched an appeal but on Monday the Bali High Court ruled the original punishments was “accurate and correct” and confirmed it.<\/p>\n

Sandiford, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, has 14 days to appeal to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

If the Supreme Court also rejects her plea, she can seek a judicial review of the decision from the same court.<\/p>\n

After that, only the president can grant her a reprieve.<\/p>\n

The sentence would see her shot by a firing squad.<\/p>\n

Sandiford was arrested in May 2012 at Bali airport when customs officers found the drugs, worth \u00a31.6m, in her luggage.<\/p>\n

She said she had been forced to smuggle the drugs into Bali from Thailand by a criminal gang and that the safety of her children was at risk.<\/p>\n

She has cooperated with the police and local authorities, which has led to other arrests.<\/p>\n

January’s death sentence came as a shock because prosecutors had recommended a 15-year jail term.<\/p>\n

Sandiford’s lawyer has said the punishment is out of proportion, given she has admitted her crime, expressed regret and helped police in the investigation.<\/p>\n

But the court ruled she had damaged Indonesia’s hard-line stance on drugs as well as Bali’s reputation as a tourism destination.<\/p>\n

Indonesia enforces stiff penalties for drug trafficking, but death penalty sentences are commonly commuted to long jail sentences.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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