Indonesia foils British trio's Angel Delight cocaine smuggling scheme
Three British nationals accused of smuggling nearly 1kg (2.2lbs) of cocaine into
Indonesia have been charged by a court on the tourist island of Bali. They could face the death penalty under the country's drug laws.
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Convicted drug smugglers in Indonesia are sometimes executed by firing squad.
Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 28, and Lisa Ellen Stocker, 29, were arrested on February 1 after customs officers halted them at the X-ray machine after finding suspicious items in their luggage disguised as food packages, prosecutor I Made Dipa Umbara said on Tuesday.
Umbara told the District Court in Denpasar that a lab test result confirmed that 10 sachets of Angel Delight powdered dessert mix in Collyer's luggage combined with seven similar sachets in his partner's suitcase contained 993.56 grams (2.19lbs) of cocaine, worth an estimated 6 billion rupiah (US$368,000).
British national Phineas Ambrose Float attempts to hide his face upon arrival at a court in Denpasar, Bali, on Tuesday. Photo: AFP
Two days later, authorities arrested Phineas Ambrose Float, 31 after a controlled delivery set up by police in which the other two suspects handed the drug to him in the parking area of a hotel in Denpasar. He is being tried separately.
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