{"id":6362,"date":"2025-07-22T10:39:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T10:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6362"},"modified":"2025-07-22T10:39:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T10:39:29","slug":"grandmas-last-wish-as-she-awaits-bali-execution-by-firing-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6362","title":{"rendered":"Grandma\u2019s last wish as she awaits Bali execution by firing squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"103\" data-end=\"164\"><strong data-start=\"103\" data-end=\"164\">British Grandmother Awaits Execution in Indonesian Prison<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"166\" data-end=\"444\">Lindsay Sandiford, 69, has spent nearly 15 years in Bali\u2019s overcrowded Kerobokan Prison after being caught with 4.8 kg of cocaine in 2012. Once a legal worker in Cheltenham, she moved to India after personal and financial struggles, before flying to Bali where she was arrested.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"446\" data-end=\"691\">Initially claiming she was coerced by a gang threatening her children, Sandiford later named others involved. While they served short sentences, she was sentenced to death by firing squad in 2013, despite prosecutors recommending a 15-year term.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"693\" data-end=\"953\">Held in a prison built for 300 but housing over 1,400, she\u2019s lost her appeals and now spends her time knitting to fund legal help. She formed a brief friendship with fellow inmate Heather Mack, who noted Sandiford had become withdrawn and resigned to her fate.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"955\" data-end=\"1085\">Her last wish? To die quietly, without her family present. \u201cIt\u2019s not the death I\u2019d choose,\u201d she said, \u201cbut no one gets out alive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Grandmother Awaits Execution in Indonesian Prison Lindsay Sandiford, 69, has spent nearly 15 years in Bali\u2019s overcrowded Kerobokan Prison after being caught with 4.8 kg of cocaine in 2012. Once a legal worker in Cheltenham, she moved to India after personal and financial struggles, before flying to Bali where she was arrested. Initially claiming&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6362\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Grandma\u2019s last wish as she awaits Bali execution by firing squad&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6364,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions\/6364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}