Bali court sentences UK woman to death

An Indonesian court has sentenced British woman Lindsay June Sandiford to death for drug smuggling. Source: AAP

AN Indonesian court has sentenced a British woman to death for smuggling cocaine onto the resort island of Bali.

Prosecutors had sought a 15-year sentence.

Lindsay June Sandiford, 56, was found guilty by the Denpasar District Court and sentenced on Tuesday.

In its verdict, a judge panel concluded Sandiford had damaged the image of Bali as a tourism destination and weakened the government's drug prevention program.

Sandiford was arrested in May when customs officers at Bali's airport discovered 3.8 kilograms of cocaine worth $US2.5 million ($A2.4 million) in her luggage.

She told the court she was forced to take the drugs into the country by a gang that was threatening to hurt one of her children.

There are more than 114 prisoners on death row in Indonesia. At least 40 of them are foreigners, most of whom have been convicted of drug crimes, according to a March 2012 report by Australia's Lowy Institute for International Policy.

Five foreigners have been executed since 1998, all for drug crimes.

There have been no executions in the country since 2008, when 10 people were put to death.

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