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Three British nationals Could face death by a shooting team after having pretended to be clandestinely denounced about a kilogram – more than two pounds – cocaine on the island of Bali in Indonesia.
The Associated Press reported that the prosecutor I manufactured Dipa Umbara said that Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 28, and Lisa Ellen Storing, 29, had been arrested on February 1, after the customs agents arrested them on the X -ray machine when they found suspicious articles disguised as food packages inside their luggage.
Umbara told Denpasar District Court during a audience On Tuesday, a laboratory test result confirmed 10 sachets of “Angel Delight” powder desert mixture in Collyer’s luggage, as well as seven similar covers in the store to store contained 993.56 grams, or 2.19 pounds, cocaine, worth around 6 billion rupees ($ 368,000).
Two days after the arrest of Collyer and to store, the police arrested Phineas Ambrose Float, 31, after a delivery bite set up by the police who involved the other two suspects who gave him the drug in the parking lot of a hotel in Denpasar.
The British Nationals Phineas Float, on the left, Jonathan Collyer and Lisa Stécer were seated in the courtroom before the start of their trial hearing before the Denpasar district court in Denpasar, Bali on Tuesday. The trio is accused of passing more than two pounds of cocaine in Indonesia. (Photo / firch lisnawati)
Float is tried separately, according to Umbara.
Cocaine was transported from England to Indonesia by Doha International Airport in Qatar, said Umbara.
The trio managed to switch from cocaine smuggling to Bali twice before being arrested during their third attempt, announced Ponco Indriyo, deputy director of the Bali police drug unit, during a press conference in Denpasar on February 7.
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The British Nationals Phineas Float, on the right, Lisa Stocker and Jonathan Collyer leave the courtroom after their first trial hearing before the district court of Denpasar in Denpasar, Bali on Tuesday. (Photo / firch lisnawati)
The accusations against the trio were announced Tuesday in a courtroom in Bali. If they are condemned, they could face the death penalty. In Indonesia, drug addicts are sometimes executed through a shooting team.
A panel of three judges postponed the trial until June 10, when the court will listen to the testimonies of the witnesses.
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British nationals Lisa Store, on the left, Jonathan Collyer and Phineas float during their trial hearing at the Denpasar district court in Denpasar, Bali. (Photo / firch lisnawati)
According to the Ministry of Immigration and Correctional Services, there are currently 530 people in the death corridor in Indonesia, including 96 foreigners, mainly for drug -related crimesreported the AP.
The last executions in Indonesia were an Indonesian and three foreigners, who were carried out in July 2016.
Lindsay Sandiford, 69, from Great Britain, has been in the death corridor in Indonesia for more than a decade.
Sandiford was arrested in 2012 after discovering that she was in possession of more than eight pounds of cocaine in the luggage mucosa at Bali airport.
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The highest court in Indonesia confirmed the death sentence for Sandiford in 2013.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime claims that Indonesia is a major drug hubs despite some of the most strict drug laws in the world, partly because international drug unions target its young population.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
