Death stalks halls in one of world's toughest prisons

UNLIKE many passengers on the flight out of Bali last night, one exhausted traveller will have been rejoicing as they left the paradise island.

- DAN WARBURTON

Amid the holidaymakers, an elderly woman in poor health will have taken her seat and said a silent prayer as the aircraft left the runway.

Lindsay Sandiford has not been enjoying the white sands of Indonesia's luxury resort - she has spent 13 years under the threat of execution in one of the world's worst prisons.

Her reprieve for smuggling £1.6million of cocaine into the country was finalised in a bilateral agreement after months of behind-thescenes negotiations by UK authorities.

It was a personal plea from Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper that finally secured her freedom, releasing her from the death penalty in a country which has some of the harshest drug laws on the planet.