Overview
- In Denpasar Central Court on July 15, Lisa Stocker, Jon Collyer and Phineas Float apologised for carrying £300,000 of cocaine hidden in Angel Delight packets and said they had been unaware of the drugs’ presence.
- Prosecutor Made Dipa Umbara asked the court to replace the mandatory death penalty with one-year prison terms for each defendant, subtracting time already served.
- Judge Heriyanti is due to deliver verdicts and sentences on July 24, nearly six months after the trio’s February arrest at Ngurah Rai International Airport.
- Lindsay Sandiford remains on death row in Kerobokan Prison after her 2013 conviction for smuggling £1.6 million of cocaine, funding ongoing legal appeals by selling knitted items.
- Indonesia has enforced a de facto moratorium on executions since 2017, though about 130 inmates—including 96 foreigners—still await possible firing-squad punishment.