Death Penalty For Brit

[tamborine]

If she was a hardened trafficer she would have the resources to ease her sentence.

Do you think UK Government should intervene on behalf of this case ?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-21228605

[888sally888]

She knew the consequences.

[woofgang]

Did she do it?

[daffy654]

She knew the risk and consequences involved with drug smuggling into Bali. If you can't do the time don't do the crime.

No our government should not get involved.

[tamborine]

They said Sandiford had damaged the image of Bali as a tourism destination and weakened the government's anti-drugs programme.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21149631

Her death by firing squad would damage Bali's tourism more, imo

[i] Leigh Day, which is working with the charity Reprieve, said it would cost £2,500 to pay for an adequate lawyer to take on Ms Sandiford's case. [i]

[MadMen]

No the UK government should not get involved. What kind of message would that send out to other would-be drug smugglers? It's incredibly harsh, but they are making an example out of her.
Bali have said this has damaged their tourism and weakened the governments anti-drugs programme, but if the UK government gets involved and tries to get her a prison sentence as opposed to the death penalty then what does that say about us. We're already known as a soft touch country!

[tamborine]

She claims her motive was to save her son from gangster threats.

[DangerUXD]

She did it, she even did deal to give up associates for a 15 year sentence. Pity the judge in the trial didn't go along with it. I don't we should intervene at all.

[MadMen]

But surely all this has been looked into. If she could have proved these claims then she wouldn't be getting death by a firing squad! It's awful, but I just can't believe anyone would do something like this (knowing the huge risks involved) rather than going to the police about the "gangster threats".

[deggers316]

apparently she got evicted from her house in the uk for not paying her rent
so hows she afforded to get to the other side of the world? shes not a innocent as some people believe

[tamborine]

She could be deported to face justice here. That would solve Bali's tourism dilemma and her life.

[woofgang]

so we should pay to keep her in jail here?

[friedgreentomato]

She was a legal secretary, so she knew the possible outcome.

[jno]

the government won't deport aliens to countries where they might face the death penalty. And yet they leave a Brit aboard where she will definitely face it.

Slightly odd, that.

[maggiebee]

Sounds like this woman took a calculated risk. She knew full well what the penalty would be if she was caught. However, the gains, if she got away with it, would be enormous. Greed.

[jno]

drug mules don't make enormous profits.

[MadMen]

Just been reading some more on this and I'm confused as to why the others only got prison sentences? Julian Ponder and his partner Rachel Dougall got 7 years between them, yet they are apparently known as the 'the King and Queen of Bali' because of their extravagant lifestyle. They must have been higher up than her, she was just the dogsbody who carried the stuff, so why not sentence them to death also?

[Answerprancer]

IMO the death penalty for a drug smuggling is barbaric. The UK government should do all they can to get her sentence commuted to deportation and prison sentence and if they don't comply, impose sanctions.