Three Brits face death penalty for 'smuggling cocaine in sachets of Angel Delight'

Daily Record

2 days ago

Jonathan Christopher Collyer, Lisa Ellen Stocker and Phineas Ambrose Float are all charged with smuggling the cocaine into Indonesia.
Three Brits are facing the death penalty after being accused of smuggling nearly a kilogram of cocaine into Indonesia hidden inside Angel Delight sachets. Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 38, and Lisa Ellen Stocker, 39, were arrested in Bali on February 1 after they were stopped by customs at the X-ray machine.
It detected suspicious items in their luggage disguised as food packages, said prosecutor I Made Dipa Umbara in court. The accused drug smugglers were ushered into the courtroom, each clad in bright red waistcoats that defendants are forced to wear during trial proceedings in Indonesia, reports the Mirror.
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Mr 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 of cocaine, said to be worth an estimated six billion rupiah (£272,000).
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Police later arrested Phineas Ambrose Float, 31, after a controlled operation which saw the other two suspects hand the drugs over to him in a hotel car park in Denpasar. He is being tried separately.
As he was led to face the drug trafficking charges, Float told gathered journalists to "f**k off". He arrived at Bali's Denpasar Central Court in a prison van, with his wrists in shackles, wearing a red prison vest over a white shirt.
As he was walked to a holding cell, the Brit continued to hurl abuse at the gathered members of the media and was pictured in court smiling at Collyer. The drugs were flown into Indonesia from England with a transit in the Doha international airport in Qatar, Mr Umbara confirmed.
The group managed to slip past Indonesian authorities twice before, before they were caught on their third attempt, said Ponco Indriyo, the deputy director of the Bali Police Narcotics Unit. The charges against the group were read out in court before a panel of three judges adjourned the trial until June 10 - when the court will next hear witness testimony.
According to data by the Ministry of Immigration and Corrections', around 530 people, including 96 foreigners, are on death row in Indonesia, mostly for drug-related crimes. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime says the country is a major drug-smuggling hotspot despite it having some of the strictest drug laws in the world - partly because international drug gangs target its younger population.
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Those convicted face lengthy prison sentences or, in some cases, death by firing squad. The last executions of an Indonesian and three foreigners were carried out in July 2016. Brit Lindsay Sandiford was arrested in Indonesia in 2012 when 3.8 kilograms of cocaine was discovered stuffed inside the lining of her luggage at Bali's airport. Now aged 69, Sandiford has been on death row for more than a decade. Her death sentence was upheld by Indonesia's highest court in 2013.
AKBP Ponco Indriyo, Bali Police Deputy Director of Drug Investigation, said at the time: "The drugs carried by the couple were cocaine weighing 994.56 grams. The drugs were brought from England via the Doha International Airport in Qatar, then to Indonesia. The method of concealment is to put the drugs, packed in food packaging, in a suitcase. The drugs were to be sold on Bali island, but were intercepted by customs and police officers."
Meanwhile, it has been revealed that Stocker has been transferred to Bali's Kerobokan jail - the same hell-hole jail where pensioner Sandiford has spent more than 12 years awaiting execution for smuggling cocaine.
A source said: "Stocker was moved to Kerobokan and placed in isolation as all new prisoners. Over recent weeks she has slowly been released into mainstream jail life and is due to be assigned a room. It means Sandiford has a new country person."