A British woman facing the death penalty for drugs smuggling in Bali has told a court she was ‘framed’.
Lisa Stocker, 39, is one in all three tourists accused of trying to herald nearly £300,000 price of cocaine sealed inside sachets of Angel Delight.
But she told judges at Denpasar’s central court: ‘The packages weren’t mine, but another person’s. I used to be framed.’
Stocker was detained alongside Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 28, at town’s airport in February.
The drugs are said to have been brought into Indonesia from England via Qatar.
The pair were pulled aside by customs officials following the invention of the packets of their luggage.
Prosecutors said the contents of 10 sachets of Angel Enjoyment of Collyer’s case and 7 desert packets in his partner’s baggage tested positive for cocaine.
Two days later, Phineas Ambrose Float, 31, was arrested in a sting by police pretending to stage a delivery within the parking area of a hotel in Denpasar. He’s being tried individually.
If convicted, the utmost sentence the trio face is the death penalty. Convicted drug smugglers in Indonesia are sometimes executed by firing squad.
Sheiny Pangkahila, representing the three Brits, suggested they may face prison sentences of 15 to twenty years if found guilty.
Stocker told the court she had been handed the dessert packets by a 3rd man, a friend within the UK, who told her to take them along with her to Bali.
She said: ‘Jon and I had been to Bali twice carrying packages from [him]. I used to be shocked after checking out it was cocaine.’
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Collyer denied receiving any payment in his statement, insisting he paid for his own trip.
He said of the identical unnamed man: ‘[He] gave me some goods he handed over to his friend in Bali. [He] told me the package contained snacks, similar to chocolate, pudding and chips. [He] said that somebody would pick up the package once I arrived in Bali.’
Nonetheless, prosecutor I Made Dipa Umbara told the court the person paid the £2,130 for the couple’s flights and accommodation.
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 greater than a decade.
She was arrested in 2012 when 3.8 kilograms of cocaine was discovered stuffed contained in 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 serious drug-smuggling hub despite having among the strictest drug laws on the earth, partially because international drug syndicates goal its young population.
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