57-year-old grandmother, Lindsay Sandiford who has been on death row in Bali, Indonesia for trafficking cocaine worth £1.6million into Bali got more bad news that the new president of Indonesia will not show her any mercy.
The legal secretary from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire was sentenced to death in January last year for trafficking drugs into Bali. And all her appeals are said to have been denied.
Her last hope of finding leniency from newly appointed president Joko Widodo was dashed when the president made it clear that he intend to take a tough stand against drug traffickers.
Grandmother Lindsay Sandiford in her cell in Bali prison
with the drugs caught with her
A spokesman for the Attorney General's Department said , ''We want to send a clear warning to international drug syndicates that Indonesia doesn't want to be a shopping place, market place or even a place for producers of narcotics.''
Sources said this news of no mercy from the president would have gotten to Mrs. Sandiford through the prisons grapevine.
newly appointed president of Indonesia Joko Widodo
As a sign that the new administration intend to take a strong stand and carry out executions of condemned criminals quickly, the Attorney General's office said five inmates currently on death row will be executed within the next four weeks.
Although he refused to mention names of the condemned criminals, he said two of them are Nigerians.
Mrs. Sandiford pleaded guilty in attempting to smuggle cocaine through the Bali international airport in 2012 following a flight from Bangkok. She claimed she had been under pressure to smuggle the narcotics because her adult sons had received death threats from drug dealers.
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