Lindsay Sandiford

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Lindsay Sandiford (born 25 June 1956) is a British former legal secretary and convicted drug smuggler who was sentenced to death in January 2013 by a court in Indonesia after being found guilty of smuggling cocaine into Bali. Although death is the maximum punishment for drug-related offences under Indonesian law, the severity of the sentence was greeted with shock because prosecutors had not recommended the death penalty for Sandiford. The ruling was also condemned by the British Government and anti-death penalty campaigners. Sandiford was arrested on 19 May 2012 after arriving at the island's Ngurah Rai International Airport on a flight from Bangkok, Thailand, when a routine luggage search uncovered the drugs. Under subsequent police interrogation, she claimed to have been coerced into carrying the drugs by a criminal gang that had made threats against her family, and took part in a sting operation to arrest several other individuals she alleged to be part of a drug trafficking ring....

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