Three Britons could face death penalty in Indonesia
Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 28, and Lisa Ellen Stocker, 29, were arrested on February 1.
Prosecutor I Made Dipa Umbara said customs officers halted them at the X-ray machine after finding suspicious items in their luggage disguised as food packages.
Mr Umbara told the District Court in Denpasar that packets of Angel Delight powdered dessert mix in their luggage contained 993.56 grams of cocaine, worth an estimated six billion rupiah (£272,000).
BREAKING: Three Britons could face the death penalty in Bali after appearing in court charged with smuggling nearly a kilogram of cocaine into Indonesia.
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Two days later, authorities arrested Phineas Ambrose Float, 31, after a controlled delivery set up by police.
This involved the other two suspects handing the drug to him in the parking area of a hotel in Denpasar. He is being tried separately.
The drugs were brought from England to Indonesia with a transit in the Doha international airport in Qatar, Mr Umbara said.
The group had successfully brought cocaine into the country twice before, Ponco Indriyo, the deputy director of the Bali Police Narcotics Unit, told reporters in February.
The trial was adjourned until next week, when the three-judge panel will hear witness evidence, Sky News reports.
Both the defendants and their lawyers declined to comment to the media after the trial.
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According to Adventure Alternative, drug use or the possession of even small amounts of drugs such as marijuana or ecstasy can lead to prison sentences longer than four years in Indonesia.
Convicted traffickers or users of hard drugs such as cocaine or heroin can face the death penalty.
Sky News adds that drug smugglers in Indonesia are "sometimes executed by firing squad".
About 530 people, including 96 foreigners, are on death row in Indonesia, mostly for drug-related crimes, the Ministry of Immigration and Corrections' data showed.
Indonesia's last executions, of an Indonesian and three foreigners, were carried out in July 2016.
A British woman, Lindsay Sandiford, now 69, has been on death row in Indonesia for more than a decade.
She was arrested in 2012 when 3.8 kilograms of cocaine were discovered stuffed inside the lining of her luggage at Bali's airport.
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