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British gran on Death Row awaiting execution has chilling final wish

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Published 20:52 26 Jan 2024 GMT

British gran on Death Row awaiting execution has chilling final wish

Lindsay Sandiford has been waiting to be executed for over 10 years

Lucy Devine

Lucy Devine

A British gran currently on Death Row once revealed her final wish to a fellow inmate.

Lindsay Sandiford, 67, has spent over 10 years behind bars in an Indonesian prison, after she was caught attempting to smuggle £1.6 million of cocaine into Bali from Bangkok.

Lindsay Sandiford has been on death row for over a decade.
SONNY TUMBELAKA/AFP via Getty Images

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Sandiford was found guilty of the crime back in 2012, and was sentenced to death by firing squad a few months later.

But the Brit is still behind bars at Kerobokan prison - known as one of the toughest jails in the world - after a decade of being in limbo.

This is because Indonesia doesn't regularly carry out executions. In fact, the last time the death penalty was carried out was in 2016.

The gran, who is from Cheltenham, now reportedly spends her time knitting items in her cell, which she sells to raise legal funds.

According to one inmate, Sandiford once revealed her final wish.

While behind bars, Sandiford apparently got friendly with Heather Mack, who was serving a 10 year sentence for killing her mother.

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Mack claimed that Sandiford struggled while locked up and became increasingly withdrawn.

"She spends all day pretty much alone in her cell and doesn’t mix so much with the other prisoners," she said.

The American killer, who ultimately served seven years, revealed what Sandiford's final wish was: "She has said she wants to die."

Sandiford apparently said: "It won't be a hard thing for me to face anymore.

"It's not particularly a death I would choose but then again I wouldn't choose dying in agony from cancer either."

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The gran is currently serving time in Kerobokan prison, which was built in 1979 to hold 320 prisoners.

Despite this, as of 2017, almost 1,300 inmates were resident at the jail and the issue of overcrowding remains even after a newly built facility was launched in 2018.

Lindsay Sandiford was caught smuggling cocaine in a suitcase.
SONNY TUMBELAKA/AFP via Getty Images

Sandiford was arrested in 2012 after the huge amount of cocaine was found in her luggage.

She insisted that she had been forced to carry the drugs by a gang who had threatened to hurt her family.

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Meanwhile, her lawyers also argued she was suffering from mental health problems.

Speaking to the court during her trial, Sandiford expressed regret over her involvement, stating: "I would like to begin by apologising to the Republic of Indonesia and the Indonesian people for my involvement.

"I would never have become involved in something like this but the lives of my children were in danger and I felt I had to protect them.”

Featured Image Credit: SONNY TUMBELAKA/AFP via Getty Images

Topics: News, Death Row

Lucy Devine
Lucy Devine

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