Indonesia jails two Britons for drug smuggling

Indonesia Jails Two Britons for Drug Smuggling

An Indonesian court handed lengthy jail terms to two men from the United Kingdom after they were found guilty of smuggling cocaine into the popular holiday island of Bali. Kial Garth Robinson was sentenced to 11 years, while Piran Ezra Wilkinson received nine years.

Both were also ordered to pay a fine or serve an additional 190 days. Robinson was arrested at Ngurah Rai International Airport in September after an officer found two packages containing 1.3 kilograms of cocaine in his backpack. Ho told the police that he was ordered by a man named Santos to transport the drugs from Barcelona to Bali and deliver them to Wilkinson, who had arrived a few days earlier.

Prosecutors said Robinson and Wilkinson were friends who lived in Thailand and met in Barcelona a week before their arrests. Indonesia has some of the world's toughest anti-drug laws, including the death penalty for traffickers, but it has maintained a moratorium on executions for several years.

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