Brit drug mule Lisa Stocker weeps in Bali court as she bids to dodge firing squad
A British mum who claims she was fitted up for trafficking more than £300,000 worth of cocaine into Bali today issued a grovelling apology as she wept: "I won't trust people so easily again."
Lisa Stocker, 39, is facing the death penalty in Indonesia after she was found with 992 grams of cocaine stashed in 17 packets of the dessert Angel Delight. She appeared in Denpasar central court today alongside her husband Jon Collyer, 39, and Phineas Float, 31, after the three Brits all pleaded guilty to smuggling the narcotics into the island.
Mum-of-three Stocker today sobbed as she told Judge Heriyanti that she had no idea that the Angel Delight packets were stuffed with drugs. She said: "I didn't know the packages were cocaine. I apologise. From now on I won't trust people so easily and will be more careful."
Collyer, who comforted his wife throughout proceedings, uttered just five words when he addressed judge Heriyanti: 'I won't do it again.' Stocker and Collyer, from East Sussex, were arrested at Bali's international airport on February 1.
They had travelled from the UK through Qatar and were arrested in Bali after a routine X-Ray at the airport alerted officials to the suspicious packages.
Float, also from East Sussex, was arrested following a sting operation set up by police. Stocker and Collyer were said to have been used by cops to lure Float to an airport hotel car park where the three were supposed to meet for the exchange on February 3.
All three defendants could face death by firing squad under Indonesia's strict anti-drug legislation. They are due to be sentenced next week, but today they appeared in court to lay out their defence.
Float - who laughed and joked while he was paraded before the media after his arrest - told the court "I was vert stupid" as he appeared in court. He has spent months in Bali's notorious hell-hole Kerobokan prison. Today he said nothing when he smiled at the media while wearing a white Boss t-shirt with blue trimming. He said: "I was very stupid to take the packages of cocaine. I regret it and apologise."
Stocker previously claimed that she had been given the Angel Delight packages in the UK by a friend to bring to Bali. She claimed that she had been framed on the second day of their trial on June 10. "Jon and I had been to Bali twice carrying packages from (this friend). I was shocked after finding out it was cocaine," she said.
Collyer meanwhile told the court that he had not been given money to go to Bali and that he paid the cost of flights and hotels himself. However, police prosecutor Made Umbara alleged that a man in the UK who allegedly gave Stocker and Collyer the cocaine, paid Collyer £2,130 to cover the cost of accommodation and flights from the UK to Bali.
While Stocker, Collyer and Float could have faced the death penalty, police prosecutor Umbara requested the judge be lenient. Mr Umbara asked the judge for a one-year prison sentence, less time served, for each defendant. All three could be back in the UK at the start of 2026. The trial will continue July 24 when Judge Heriyanti will deliver her verdict and sentence the three.
In another British drug mule trial underway in Bali, Elliot Shaw, 50, of Watford, and his Argentinian girlfriend Ellionora Gracia are accused of smuggling 244 grams of cocaine into the party island. Prosecutor Umbara has demanded that the couple each receive a six-year prison sentence.
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