DEATH ROW GRAN FREE

69-year-old's 20hr trip home, 13 long years in hellish Bali jail

- DAN WARBURTON

DRUGS mule gran Lindsay Sandiford will touch down on British soil today after more than a decade on death row - but may face being back behind bars immediately.

The pensioner, 69, was pictured in a wheelchair as she tasted freedom for the first time in 13 years after leaving Bali's Kerobokan jail.

Wearing a mask and covering her face, she was whisked to Denpasar International Airport, where she boarded a Qatar Airways flight.

The UK-funded £600 plane ticket bought her freedom after Keir Starmer struck a deal with the Indonesian authorities.

She is said to be in extremely poor health as she makes the 20-hour journey back to the UK.

It marks the end of a harrowing chapter in legal secretary Sandiford's life, in which she was sentenced to the death penalty for smuggling £1.6million of cocaine into Indonesia.

The Foreign Office has refused to say if Sandiford will walk free or be taken into custody when she arrives back in the UK.

But when asked what Sandiford faces when she arrives in Britain, Indonesia's Deputy Minister for Immigration and Correctional Coordination, I Nyoman Gede Surya Mataram, said: "In England, she will remain in prison."

Sandiford left her cell in Kerobokan jail shortly after 2pm British time yesterday.

She was freed alongside fellow UK national Shahab Shahabadi, 35, who was detained in June 2014 and is serving a life sentence for different drug offences.

The pair were paraded in front of the media for one last time as officials signed repatriation papers at the prison.