Brit handed six years for Bali drugs charge
JULIAN Ponder was sentenced to six years in jail yesterday after being identified by former Cheltenham woman Lindsay Sandiford.
The 43-year-old was convicted of possessing 23g of cocaine in Bali, but was cleared of smuggling the drug.
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Lindsay Sandiford
Ponder was one of three Britons arrested after being named by 56-year-old Sandiford.
The grandmother, who lived in Hester's Way and Warden Hill, was given the death sentence last week after being found guilty of smuggling.
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She is now suing the Foreign Office for not supporting her appeal.
Ponder was also fined one billion rupiah (£65,000).
Comments
by Lecorche
Wednesday, January 30 2013, 9:12AM
“I hope that this very,very lucky man doesn't get any help from our Government,either.
What's more,I'd like to see a Law passed here that puts his like in front of a beak for sullying the name of Great Britain and carry sentences that match the foreign ones.”