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Britons accept sentences for smuggling cocaine into Bali
The Independent
|February 27, 2026
Two British men have been jailed for a combined 20 years after being found guilty of smuggling cocaine into Bali. Kial Garth Robinson, 29, from Chichester, was sentenced to 11 years in prison, and Piran Ezra Wilkinson, 48, was handed a nine-year sentence yesterday.
Both have been ordered to pay a fine of approximately £45,000 or serve an additional 190 days in jail.
Robinson, a landscape gardener by profession, had been charged with multiple breaches of Indonesia's drug laws, including drug trafficking, importation and possession.
He was arrested on 3 September 2025 at Bali International airport after customs officers found 1.3kg of the drug in his bag, according to prosecutors.
Both men told authorities that Robinson had been recruited into the scheme by a man named Santos, who ordered him to take the drugs from Barcelona to Bali. The pair had met the week before their arrest.
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