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Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- General
- Daily Mirror
Family life of Brit couple accused of Bali cocaine plot as 4 kids 'devastated'
A mum from the UK is facing execution in Bali if found guilty after being accused of trying to smuggle nearly a kilo of cocaine into the country - here's everything we know about her When Lisa Ellen Stocker and Jonathan Christopher Collyer dropped off the radar in February, their families were deeply concerned. The couple set off from the UK to Bali, via Doha in Qatar, and weren't heard of again, prompting their loved ones to beg for information on Facebook groups. They posted a message on a Facebook group popular with Bali travellers pleading for information about the pair. It read: "They did not have a driver to pick them up at the airport so they were going to catch a random taxi... please help us find them we are incredibly worried about their safety and whereabouts." When the answer came, it was the stuff of nightmares: the duo had been arrested on suspicion of taking part in a £300,000 drug smuggling plot. On arrival in Bali, the couple had been stopped by customs officials at Ngurah Rai Airport, who say they found 17 packages of the drug in their suitcases disguised as Angel Delight. Allegedly, the popular powdered dessert mix had been replaced with 993.56 grams of cocaine, worth more than £290,000. A few days later, Phineas Ambrose Float, 31, was arrested in a police sting - cops set up a controlled delivery to snare the Brit, who was allegedly due to receive the package of cocaine. Next week, the trio will stand trial at Denpasar's central court. The death penalty is often handed to those convicted of drugs charges under Indonesian law, with the sentence normally carried out by firing squad. Back to February 7 and a relative of Stocker shared their pain on Facebook after the news of her arrested emerged. "We as a family are going through all different emotions so please bear that in mind when you're speaking your opinions," she said. "We are trying to protect her four children who are devastated. She can't see the comments you're making, but her boys can!" The mother-of-four's Facebook page is filled with proud pictures of her children. In one post dating back a few years, she speaks of cooking a Mother's Day roast for her family. There are photos of Stocker from Gillingham in Kent dating back to 2017. The couple are pictured looking smitten by the sea, posing for pictures with a sunset backdrop and playfully sticking their tongues out at the camera. In an image dating back to last October, the pair are seen cuddling up to an elephant. The Mirror today revealed that Stocker is being housed in Bali's Kerobokan prison, where pensioner Lindsay 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."
Metro
3 days ago
- General
- Metro
Brits face firing squad for 'smuggling cocaine inside Angel Delight sachets'
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Three British people face the death penalty after being charged with smuggling nearly a kilo of cocaine into Bali. Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 28, and Lisa Ellen Stocker, 29, were detained at Denpasar International Airport after customs officers flagged suspicious items in their luggage. Prosecutors said the contents of 10 sachets of Angel Delight in Collyer's case and seven desert packets in his partner's baggage tested positive for cocaine. The 993.56g is worth an estimated six billion rupiah (£270,000). Two days later, Phineas Ambrose Float, 31, was arrested in a sting by police pretending to stage a delivery in the parking area of a hotel in Denpasar. He is being tried separately. If convicted, the trio face the death penalty. Convicted drug smugglers in Indonesia are sometimes executed by firing squad. The drugs were brought from England to Indonesia with a transit in the Doha international airport in Qatar, prosecutor I Made Dipa Umbara said. Ponco Indriyo, the Deputy Director of the Bali Police Narcotics Unit, previously told reporters the trio successfully took drugs with them into Bali twice before being caught. After the charges against the group of three were read, the panel of three judges adjourned the trial until June 10, when the court will hear witness testimony. Both the defendants and their lawyers declined to comment to media after the trial. 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. More Trending 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 was discovered stuffed inside the lining of her luggage at Bali's airport. Indonesia's highest court upheld the death sentence for Sandiford in 2013. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says Indonesia is a major drug-smuggling hub despite having some of the strictest drug laws in the world, in part because international drug syndicates target its young population. Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: First picture of 'loving' teenager who died after motorbike plunged into canal MORE: 'I'm a reformed drug smuggler – this is how mules will be feeling on flights' MORE: Sainsbury's shoppers still losing millions of Nectar points in widespread scam
Daily Record
3 days ago
- General
- Daily Record
Three Brits face death penalty for 'smuggling cocaine in sachets of Angel Delight'
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. 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). 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. 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."
Daily Mirror
3 days ago
- Politics
- Daily Mirror
All we know on three Brit drug smuggling suspects facing death in holiday idyll
Lisa Ellen Stocker, 29, her boyfriend Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 28, and fellow Brit Phineas Ambrose Float, 31, have all been held in Indonesia on drugs charges for the past four months A British woman, her boyfriend and another man have all been accused of smuggling almost a kilo of cocaine into Bali, hidden inside Angel Delight sachets, from the UK. The trio - Lisa Ellen Stocker, 29, her boyfriend Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 28, and fellow Brit Phineas Ambrose Float, 31 - go on trial next week in the Bali capital Denpasar next week and are facing the death penalty if found guilty. In Indonesia convicted drug smugglers are usually executed by firing squad. According to data by Indonesia's Ministry of Immigration and Corrections, around 530 people, including 96 foreigners, are on death row in Indonesia, mostly for drug-related crimes, including British gran Lindsay Sandiford, now 69. She has been on death row in Indonesia for more than a decade. She was arrested in 2012 when 3.8 kilograms of cocaine was discovered stuffed inside the lining of her luggage at Bali's airport. How were the British trio caught? Stocker, from Gillingham in Kent, and Collyer were arrested together on Saturday, February 1. They had landed at Denpasar International Airport and were stopped at customs. They had travelled from the UK, with a stopover in Doha in Qatar. Officials claimed to have found suspicious items in their luggage disguised as food packages, when their luggage was passed through the x-ray machine. Prosecutor I Made Dipa Umbara told the District Court in Denpasar at a pre-trial hearing 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 Stocker's suitcase contained 993.56 grams of cocaine, worth an estimated 6 billion rupiah - approximately £272,500. Two days later, Indonesian authorities arrested Float 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. Why were their bags searched at customs? The group successfully smuggled cocaine into Bali on two previous occasions, according to Ponco Indriyo, the Deputy Director of the Bali Police Narcotics Unit. He told the press conference that the trio had been caught on their third and final attempt. They have now been in prison for four months awaiting trial. What happens next? Today, the charges against all three were read to a panel of three judges. They are accused of drug smuggling. The panel adjourned the trial until Tuesday, June 10. The court will then hear the full case against them and witness testimony. It is not known if the accused will have a chance to speak or whether they deny the charges against them. If they are found guilty they could be sentenced to death. Back in May, Thomas Parker, from Cumbria was sentenced in Bali to 10 months in jail on for drug offences after a charge that could carry the death penalty was dropped. He had been was arrested in January at a villa near Kuta beach, a popular tourist spot, after he allegedly collected a package containing drugs from a motorcycle taxi driver on a nearby street. Police officers said Parker was 'acting suspiciously' while he collected the package, according to the court document. He allegedly discarded it in a panic and fled when police approached him. A lab test confirmed the package contained slightly over a kilogram (2.326 pounds) of MDMA, the main ingredient in ecstasy. During the police investigation, the 32-year-old electrician was able to prove that he did not order the package. It was sent by a drug dealer friend, identified only as Nicky, whom Parker had known for around two years and spoke to regularly through the Telegram messaging app. Police reduced the initial charge of drug trafficking, which carries a possible death sentence, to the less serious offence of hiding information from authorities after investigators determined that the package was not directly linked to him.
Yahoo
3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Three Britons could face death penalty in Bali over charges of smuggling cocaine in Angel Delight sachets
Three Britons could face the death penalty in Bali after appearing in court charged with smuggling nearly a kilogram of cocaine into Indonesia. Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 28, and Lisa Ellen Stocker, 29, were arrested on 1 February after customs officers stopped them at the X-ray machine after finding suspicious items in their luggage, prosecutors claimed. 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, or over two pounds, of cocaine, worth an estimated six billion rupiah (£272,000), prosecutor I Made Dipa Umbara told the District Court in the regional capital Denpasar. Phineas Ambrose Float, 31, was arrested two days later after police set up a controlled delivery in which the other two suspects allegedly handed him the drug in the parking area of a hotel in Denpasar. He is being tried separately. Convicted 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, according to figures from the country's ministry of immigration and corrections. One of them, Briton Lindsay Sandiford, now 69, has been on death row for more than a decade after 3.8 kilos of cocaine was found in her luggage in 2012. Despite its strict laws, Indonesia is a major drug-smuggling hub, the UN has said, partly because international syndicates target its young population. This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the latest version. You can receive breaking news alerts on a smartphone or tablet via the Sky News app. You can also follow us on WhatsApp and subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with the latest news.
