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Redcar gran Lindsay Sandiford to return to UK after escaping death penalty for drug smuggling

Teeside Live 1 min read 5 hours ago

Lindsay Sandiford, 69, will be handed a UK-funded seat on a flight leaving Bali this afternoon. The pensioner was sentenced to death in 2013 after being caught smuggling £1.6million of cocaine into Indonesia
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