Lisa Ellen Stocker, 39, has been transferred to the hell-hole Kerobokan jail as she and her partner Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 38, face execution for trafficking drugs
A Brit accused of a £300,000 coke smuggling plot in Bali has been moved to the same prison as death row drug mule Lindsay Sandiford, the Mirror can reveal.
Lisa Ellen Stocker, 39, and her partner Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 38, are facing execution after they were found with 17 packages – weighing nearly a kilo – of cocaine. Yesterday they appeared in court alongside Phineas Ambrose Float, 31, who was allegedly due to receive the packages and arrested a few days later.
The Mirror can reveal that Stocker has been transferred to Bali’s Kerobokan jail – the same hell-hole jail where pensioner Sandiford has spent more than 12 years awaiting execution for smuggling cocaine. A source said: “Stocker was moved to Kerobokan and placed in isolation as all new prisoners. Over recent weeks she has slowly been released into mainstream jail life and is due to be assigned a room. It means Sandiford has a new country person.”
Collyer and Stocker had been halted by airport cops at the X-ray machine after finding “suspicious” items in their suitcases in February. They were pulled to a separate area, where staff found the narcotics sealed in blue plastic packages labelled “Angel Delight” in Collyer’s luggage. More cocaine was found in seven plastic bags in his partner’s suitcase.
Police said they seized 994.56g of cocaine worth an estimated six billion Indonesian rupiahs – around £296,000. Worried friends had previously posted online appeals to find the couple after they “went off the grid” unaware that they had been arrested and put in a police cell.
AKBP Ponco Indriyo, Bali Police Deputy Director of Drug Investigation, said at the time: “The drugs carried by the couple were cocaine weighing 994.56 grams. The drugs were brought from England via the Doha International Airport in Qatar, then to Indonesia. The method of concealment is to put the drugs, packed in food packaging, in a suitcase. The drugs were to be sold on Bali island, but were intercepted by customs and police officers.”
The police boss added that one of the suspects was involved in two other suspected drug trafficking cases. Following their arrests, the trio were paraded in front of local media with other arrested drug suspects during a press conference. Float was seen laughing, while Stocker and Collyer remained sombre.
The heaviest punishment for taking part in a drug transaction is also the death penalty under Indonesian law. Yesterday the accused drug smugglers were ushered into the courtroom, each clad in bright red waistcoats.
Mr Umbara told the District Court in Denpasar that a lab test result confirmed that 10 sachets of Angel Delight powdered dessert mix in Collyer’s luggage combined with seven similar sachets in his partner’s suitcase contained 993.56 grams of cocaine, worth an estimated six billion rupiah (£272,000). A verdict was not expected until a later date.
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto’s administration has moved in recent months to repatriate several high-profile inmates, all sentenced for drug offences, back to their home countries. Frenchman Serge Atlaoui returned to France in February after Jakarta and Paris agreed a deal to repatriate him on ‘humanitarian grounds’ because he was ill.
In December, Indonesia took Mary Jane Veloso off death row and returned her to the Philippines. It also sent the five remaining members of the “Bali Nine” drug ring, who were serving heavy prison sentences, back to Australia. According to Indonesia’s Ministry of Immigration and Corrections, 96 foreigners were on death row, all on drug charges, before Veloso’s release.
Earlier this year the Mirror revealed Sandiford is so convinced she will walk free after 12 years on death row that she is giving her clothes to other inmates. The Brit cocaine trafficker, 67, thinks she can dodge the firing squad thanks to a change in the law in Indonesia.
She has been held in Bali’s hellhole Kerobokan jail since 2013 for bringing £1.6million of cocaine into the country. But Indonesia has recently freed other smugglers serving similar sentences as it relaxes its notoriously tough anti-drug laws. A source said: “For a long time Lindsay was resigned to her fate, but now she’s dreaming of freedom. Foreign Office officials have spent a lot of time visiting her in prison and they’re working hard to secure her freedom.”
New legislation means Sandiford’s death sentence could be converted into a life prison term as she has managed more than 10 years’ good behaviour behind bars.
