Posted on 06/05/2025 11:12:27 AM PDT by Red Badger
Three British people face the death penalty after being charged with smuggling nearly a kilo of cocaine into Bali, Indonesia.
Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 28, and Lisa Ellen Stocker, 29, were detained at Denpasar International Airport after customs officers flagged suspicious items in their luggage.
Prosecutors said the contents of 10 sachets of Angel Delight in Collyer’s case and seven desert packets in his partner’s baggage tested positive for cocaine.
The 993.56g is worth an estimated six billion rupiah (£270,000).
Two days later, Phineas Ambrose Float, 31, was arrested in a sting by police pretending to stage a delivery in the parking area of a hotel in Denpasar.
He is being tried separately.
If convicted, the trio face the death penalty. Convicted drug smugglers in Indonesia are sometimes executed by firing squad.
The drugs were brought from England to Indonesia with a transit in the Doha international airport in Qatar, prosecutor I Made Dipa Umbara said.
Ponco Indriyo, the Deputy Director of the Bali Police Narcotics Unit, previously told reporters the trio successfully took drugs with them into Bali twice before being caught.
After the charges against the group of three were read, the panel of three judges adjourned the trial until June 10, when the court will hear witness testimony.
Both the defendants and their lawyers declined to comment to media after the trial.
About 530 people, including 96 foreigners, are on death row in Indonesia, mostly for drug-related crimes, the Ministry of Immigration and Corrections’ data showed.
(L-R) Phineas Float, Jonathan Collyer and Lisa Stocker of Britian sit inside a court room for their trial at the Denpasar district court, in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, 03 June 2025. Three British nationals are on trial in Bali over alleged drug smuggling. EPA/MADE NAGI
If convicted, the trio face the death penalty (Picture: EPA)
Indonesia’s last executions, of an Indonesian and three foreigners, were carried out in July 2016.
I spent time working on a project in Indonesia and Singapore and when one flies into each country on the customs cards one fills out on the plane before landing is the phrase in red letters that possessing or importing drugs carries the death penalty. In those countries it’s not an idle threat. They were warned.
Shoot straight, you bastards, don’t make a mess of it.
I am completely fine with their pending deaths.
The law warned them and they chose to ignore, for fun and profits.
Looks bit ex-post facto to me. What are they supposed to do with the drugs they may have on them? Parachute out of the plane before landing?
The punishment does not fit the crime.
Isn't Indonesia an example of how punitive Sharia law is?
I'm probably a little out of touch, so I looked it up. It's pudding mix.
>>Looks bit ex-post facto to me. What are they supposed to do with the drugs they may have on them? Parachute out of the plane before landing?
IIRC, many countries have a bin outside customs for people to dump illegal contraband, as a last chance.
“Looks bit ex-post facto to me. “
I’m certain it was not their first time flying into the country. I’m also certain they knew about this a priori as everyone does when flying into those countries for the first time.
Also I was not expressing any opinion on whether or not the punishment fit the crime, just making a statement of fact.
“Isn’t Indonesia an example of how punitive Sharia law is?”
Shh. You’re not supposed to mention the obvious in a country that slaughters Christians for being Christians like in Aceh and Ambon.
Better yet, they get to have fun wasting some Hated Caucasians, still mad about those damn blonde Dutch Reformed people who lorded over them for so long.
Who financed this idiot play? Quarter of a million pounds!
What are they supposed to do with the drugs.
DUH they were to stupid to flush them while on the plane.
The punishment fits the crime laws are obey or pay deal not that difficult to understand.
Stupid ideas have stupid results.
The first thing you see when you exit the jetway in Jakarta is a sign that says: “drug trafficking is punishable by death.” But people still do it all the time.
I really feel sad for these people, but they understood the risk they were taking. The Brits, Aussies and Brazilians, many of them surfers, seem to be the most willing to take this chance.
Even so, I think international pressure is mounting to avoid executions, so they may just have a really long, unpleasant stay in Indonesian prison.
Said the Aussie ....
Please cite where in Indonesian law that ex-post-facto laws are against their rules.
What are they supposed to do with the drugs they may have on them? Parachute out of the plane before landing?
Every jurisdiction on earth agrees that ignorance of the law is no excuse. They knew that smuggling was illegal before they got on the plane, as it was illegal in the jurisdiction when they got ON the plane... and is why they tried to hide it. Duh.
So what should they have done? Not smuggle large quantities of illegal narcotics into a foreign country, maybe?
The punishment does not fit the crime.
Their society says differently. Don't like it? Become a citizen there and vote to have it changed. Otherwise, your opinion means nothing.
Isn't Indonesia an example of how punitive Sharia law is?
Indeed... which is yet another way in which these large scale drug smugglers should have known and were on notice that the consequences could and probably would be severe. So much for your assertion that it was ex-post-facto!!
Also couldn’t they flush it down the toilet?
(and by the way, that’s not what “ex post facto” means... that occurs when a law is PASSED after a crime is committed, and then trying to punish the “offender” for the crime that wasn’t a crime when it was committed. Simply finding a written post about a law after you commit a crime is nowhere near the same thing. FYI.)
Phineas phacepalm
Over two POUNDS of it is quite a bit... I don’t know the conversion to Kourics, but it seems like an awfully big deposit in the restroom.
He was actually born in Britain.
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