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British woman Lindsay Sandiford has been sentenced to death

British gran Lindsay Sandiford launches Bali death penalty appeal after drug smuggling conviction

Sandiford says she was forced to transport drugs to protect her children

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Lindsay Sandiford, 56, was sentenced to death at Denpasar District Court in January

Public raises funds for British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford to launch death sentence challenge at Indonesian Supreme Court

A fundraising page set up to pay for Lindsay Sandiford's legal fight in Indonesia reached its target today.

Lindsay Sandiford, 56, was sentenced to death at Denpasar District Court in January

Lindsay Sandiford death sentence: British grandmother loses appeal for UK government to fund death row legal challenge

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office refused to fund 56-year-old’s case as a matter of Government policy

British woman Lindsay Sandiford has been sentenced to death

'I'd rather face firing squad than stay in prison', says British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford sentenced to death in Bali for trafficking £1.6m of cocaine

'I don't want to get old and decrepit in here...at least a bullet is quick,' says Lindsay Sandiford

All passengers safe after jet misses Denpasar airport runway on Bali and plunges into sea

A plane carrying more than 100 passengers missed the runway and plunged into the sea on the Indonesian resort island of Bali.

British woman Lindsay Sandiford has been sentenced to death

Lindsay Sandiford: British grandmother facing death sentence in Bali has appeal refused

William Hague argued that the death penalty is 'unwarranted'

Lindsay Sandiford

British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford caught smuggling cocaine in Bali 'could be executed within weeks'

Indonesia has signalled its intention to resume state executions

Lindsay Sandiford in court yesterday

Bali drug smuggling grandmother case: Government faces legal action over failure to provide 'adequate' lawyer for Lindsay Sandiford

The Government has been accused of breaching the "fundamental rights" of a British grandmother sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug smuggling by refusing to pay for legal representation as she battles for her life.

Editorial: Not such a tourist idyll after all

Quite apart from the principle of capital punishment, which we utterly reject, the death sentence passed by an Indonesian court on a British cocaine-smuggler in Bali looks excessive on at least two counts. First, it seems out of all proportion to the 20-year prison term received by the bomb-maker for the 2002 Bali nightclub atrocity in which more than 200 people died, and second, it is of quite a different order from the 15-year term requested by the prosecution. An appeal is to be launched, but we hope there is some way that the Indonesian judiciary can commute the sentence sooner.

Lindsay Sandiford was arrested in May after police found £1.6m worth of cocaine in her suitcase

British grandmother faces execution in Bali after being 'coerced' into drug mule role

Lindsay Sandiford was arrested in May when customs officials found £1.6 million worth of cocaine sown into the lining of her suitcase as she arrived in Indonesia

Bali bombing victims remembered on tenth anniversary

The Bali bombings left an “indelible mark” on Britain's national memory, Foreign Office minister Hugo Swire said today.

Ten years on, relatives of Bali bombing victims seek final justice

Relatives of the British victims of the 2002 Bali bombings are calling for renewed efforts for a final suspect to stand trial as they prepare to mark the 10th anniversary of the tragedy tomorrow.

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