British mum Lindsey Sandiford is facing death by firing squad in Indonesia for smuggling drugs into the country. However, the 69-year-old, who has been in prison for 12 years, has a shocking message for her state-employed killers: “Get on with it”.
The mum-of-two was arrested with a £1.6million stash of cocaine in her luggage, which she was trying to smuggle into the Indonesian island of Bali in 2012. The penalties in Indonesia are heavy – most drug traffickers and dealers are handed the death penalty.
According to the Daily Record, convicts are led to a grassy patch where they can opt to sit or stand before armed soldiers take aim at their hearts. Then, if they’re still alive, convicts are shot in the head.
When Sandiford was arrested, she maintained she’d been forced into smuggling the Class A drugs by a criminal gang, who threatened her family’s safety if she didn’t comply.
But when faced with the grim reality of a death sentence for drug trafficking, she flipped her plea. She claimed to police she’d been roped into moving the drugs by an antiques dealer named Julian Ponder, a Brit living in Bali, and his partner Rachel Dougall.
Dougall was jailed for a year after being found guilty of failing to report a crime, while Beales was given a four-year sentence for hashish possession. Ponder was acquitted of drug smuggling but was given a six-year sentence for narcotics possession.
Lindsay’s final wish has now become her only focus, as Lindsay herself confessed to suitcase killer Lois Heather Mack, whom she has befriended in prison. “She has said she wants to die”, Mack said.
She reportedly told the American: “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.
“I do feel I can cope with it. But when it happens I don’t want my family to come. I don’t want any fuss at all. The one thing certain about life is no one gets out alive.”
Lindsay, despite her grim circumstances, expressed a sense of gratitude, stating she feels “blessed” to have witnessed her two sons grow up and meet her grandchildren. She maintains a defiant stance, declaring: “My attitude is ‘If you want to shoot me, shoot me. Get on with it’.”