Another day, another load of Brits caught smuggling copious amounts of drugs into a country where it is a very bad idea to do that. This time – a whole trio of British nationals over in 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.
Sure enough, airport officers found nearly a kilo of cocaine in their luggage, all packed inside Angel Delight sachets and shared between their suitcases (10 sachets in Collyer’s luggage and seven in Stocker’s).
The 993.56g is worth an estimated six billion rupiah (£270,000) in the region. Not bad if you can actually make it past the airport and sell it, but quite obviously not worth the risk to anyone with half a brain.
Two days later, their buddy Phineas Ambrose Float, 31, was arrested in a sting by police pretending to stage a delivery of the cocaine in the car park of a hotel in Denpasar.
If convicted, the trio face the death penalty, potentially by firing squad. Which may actually be preferable to spending the rest of their lives in a Bali prison.
Get a load of these three faces of regret:
The drugs were brought from England to Indonesia with a transit in Doha international airport in Qatar, but the plan ultimately fell apart at the final hurdle.
Incredibly, Ponco Indriyo, the Deputy Director of the Bali Police Narcotics Unit, told reporters the trio successfully took drugs with them into Bali twice before being caught. How do they know that then?
About 530 people, including 96 foreigners, are currently on death row in Indonesia, mostly for drug-related crimes. Clearly authorities are keeping an eye out over there, so probably best not to turn up with prison tattoos all over your face if you’re the drug-smuggling type (looking at you, Collyer).
It’s hard to have any sympathy for these people, as they would have been fully aware of the consequences of what they were doing. Smuggling a kilo of cocaine into a zero-tolerance country where the punishment is death via firing squad is just asking for trouble, even if you get away with it the first one or two times. You reap what you sow.
Their trial has been adjourned until June 10.
For the 79-year-old British pensioner who will probably die in south American jail after being caught with £200,000 worth of meth in Chile, click HERE.
