Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Drug smuggler Lindsay Sandiford takes death penalty case to UK supreme court

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Thursday, June 5, 2014

Drug smuggler Lindsay Sandiford takes death penalty case to UK supreme court

British woman facing execution in Indonesia makes last appeal for UK government to fund her defence

theguardian.com, Steven Morris and agency, Wednesday 4 June 2014

Lindsay Sandiford at her trial last year. Photograph: Sonny Tumbelaka/
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A British woman facing execution by firing squad in Indonesia for drug smuggling has no funds to mount a legal challenge against her sentence, the UK's highest court has been told.

Lawyers for Lindsay Sandiford, 57, from Cheltenham, are arguing at the supreme court that the government's policy not to provide funding for legal representation to Britons facing capital charges abroad is unlawful. The court of appeal rejectedthis argument in May last year.

Her barrister, Aidan O'Neill QC, told five supreme court judges that previously Sandiford had been able to fund her legal fight against the death sentence in the Indonesian courts through donations.

He said the only two chances left to her now were appealing against her sentence at the Indonesian supreme court or submitting a petition for clemency to the country's government. The first course required "detailed knowledge of Indonesian law", the second "close knowledge of the Indonesian judicial and political situation and environment".

O'Neill added: "The appellant is however effectively without legal representation in Indonesia and she has no access to any further private funding which might otherwise allow her to instruct a suitably qualified lawyer."

Sandiford was found with cocaine worth an estimated £1.6m when she arrived in Bali on a flight from Thailand in May 2012. She has claimed she was forced to transport the drugs, believing her son would be targeted by gangsters if she refused, but in January 2013 she was sentenced to death by firing squad by a district court in Bali.

Her supporters say she has been hampered throughout by a lack of access to an effective legal team.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has said the government does not fund legal representation for British nationals abroad but has supported Sandiford through diplomatic channels.

In written submissions opposing Sandiford's appeal, Martin Chamberlain QC, for the foreign secretary, William Hague, said: "The death penalty is among the punishments to which the government is opposed in all circumstances as a matter of principle."

But Chamberlain said the legal aid scheme extended only to proceedings in the UK, and the government "has not established an analogous scheme to cover legal expenses for British nationals involved in criminal proceedings abroad, even where the proceedings may result in the imposition of punishments to which it is strongly opposed".

He told the judges the policy did not allow funding to be given, even in exceptional circumstances, but added: "However, that does not mean that the appellant's individual circumstances have been ignored."

Speaking before the supreme court hearing, Maya Foa, death penalty director of the human rights campaign group Reprieve, said: "Lindsay was only sentenced to death because she didn't have funding for an adequate lawyer.

"Her co-defendants, all of whom had competent lawyers and funds at their disposal, received sentences of one to seven years. Lindsay, who had neither, was sentenced to death.

"British nationals who find themselves facing a death sentence in Indonesia also find themselves at a disadvantage compared to other European nationals whose home governments provide assistance.

"Had Lindsay been Dutch, Austrian, Swedish or German, she would have been represented by well-respected local counsel – and very likely have avoided a death sentence in the first place.

"The Indonesian government also takes this position – admirably, they provide legal assistance for their nationals facing a death sentence overseas, from Florida to Saudi Arabia."

The hearing continues.

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