Wednesday 29 April 2015

'What hope is there for me?' British grandmother fears she will be next to face the firing squad after execution of Bali Nine ringleaders Lindsay Sandiford, 58, has accepted her fate and fears she will be the next to face the firing squad in Bali

'What hope is there for me?' British grandmother fears she will be next to face the firing squad after execution of Bali Nine ringleaders 

  • Lindsay Sandiford, 58, has accepted her fate and fears she will be the next to face the firing squad in Bali
  • Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran killed tonight after a final KFC bucket meal - both refused to wear blindfolds
  • She has been on death row in Bali since being convicted of attempting to smuggle £1.6million of cocaine in 2012
  • Said she was 'utterly heartbroken' at news about Chan, who she befriended while holed up in Bali prison
A British grandmother on death row in Bali for smuggling cocaine has accepted her fate and said she 'feels like just giving up' in the wake of the execution of the Bali Nine ringleaders today. 
Australian duo Andrew Chan, 31, and Myuran Sukumaran, 33, were executed along with six other prisoners by an Indonesian firing squad.
Lindsay Sandiford, 58, from Cheltenham, now fears she will be the next to face the firing squad and said she 'just wants to get it over with'.
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Lindsay Sandiford, pictured, believes that she will be executed by the end of the year for smuggling drugs
Lindsay Sandiford, pictured, believes that she will be executed by the end of the year for smuggling drugs
She was sentenced to death after Indonesian police linked her to almost five kilograms of cocaine
She was sentenced to death after Indonesian police linked her to almost five kilograms of cocaine
Ambulances with the bodies of the eight men executed by Indonesia overnight, including Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, were pictured arriving at Cilacap port from the prison island
Ambulances with the bodies of the eight men executed by Indonesia overnight, including Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, were pictured arriving at Cilacap port from the prison island
The grandmother told a friend she was 'utterly heartbroken' at the news about Chan, who she had befriended in Bali's squalid Kerobokan prison. 
The Australian pair were the first to die in the latest round of executions tonight after a final KFC bucket meal.  
She said: 'If they kill someone as good as Andrew, what hope is there for me?
'I just want to get it over with. I feel like just giving up.'  
Andrew Chan (right), who befriended Sandiford in prison, and Myuran Sukumaran (left) were killed today 
Andrew Chan (right), who befriended Sandiford in prison, and Myuran Sukumaran (left) were killed today 
At Cilacap port, anti-death penalty protesters began playing 'Hallelujah' just prior to news of the deaths today


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