A gran on death row in Bali has ditched her legal battle to avoid facing a firing squad, telling them: "If you want to shoot me, shoot me. Get on with it."
Lindsay Sandiford has been on death row since being jailed in 2013, after she was caught smuggling 10lbs of cocaine in her luggage on a flight from Bangkok to Bali.
She has now given up her fight to avoid execution as she says she is no longer scared of facing a firing squad, reports Mirror Online .
Sandiford has revealed that she has abandoned her legal battle to avoid a death sentence.
The drug mule said in an interview in prison recently that being executed by firing squad "won't be a hard thing for me to face anymore".
Originally from Redcar in North Yorkshire, Sandiford has two young granddaughters, aged one and six, who recently flew to Bali from the UK and visited her at the island's notorious Kerobokan prison, known ironically as Hotel K.
She told MailOnline she feels "blessed", even though she has been sentenced to death in Indonesia, because she has seen her two sons grow up and she has met her grandchildren.
Facing the prospect of death by firing squad, she said: "It won't be a hard thing for me to face anymore.
"It's not particularly a death I would choose but them again I wouldn't choose dying in agony from cancer either.
"I do feel I can cope with it. But when it happens I don't want my family to come. I don't want any fuss at all. The one thing certain about life is no one gets out alive."
She added: "My attitude is 'If you want to shoot me, shoot me. Get on with it'."
Sandiford said she spends her days knitting clothes and toys for her granddaughters, charities and church groups in a cramped cell measuring five metres by five metres (16ft by 16ft) that she shares with four other women prisoners.
She keeps photos of her granddaughters next to her bed in her cell, and has expressed regret that she cannot be a full-time grandmother.
Well-wishers had raised more than £40,000 for a final appeal, with the money spent on a succession of Indonesian lawyers and legal assistants, it was reported.
Now grey-haired, Sandiford said she doesn't want to deal with another lawyer after being "burnt enough times", and she doesn't want help from the Foreign Office.
The grandmother is said to suffer from arthritis and has difficulty walking.
A date for her execution has not been set.
Sandiford, who has no previous convictions, had previously launched an unsuccessful appeal to block her execution.
She has continuously claimed she was forced by a UK-based drugs syndicate to smuggle the drugs to protect her son who she claims was being threatened.
Just over 10lbs of cocaine was found in her luggage after she stepped off a Thai Airways flight in December 2012.
Sandiford was sentenced to death even though she cooperated with police in a sting to arrest people higher up in the syndicate.
She has said her sentence was "unjustly harsh", and she was supported by celebrities and human rights groups as she tried to overturn it.
If and when the sentence is carried out, Sandiford will be transferred to Nusa Kambangan, known as Execution Island, and killed by a firing squad at midnight.
She said she isn't afraid of dying, and the worst thing will be the humiliation of being paraded in front of Indonesia's press before being executed.
Source: dailyrecord.co.uk, Chris Kitching, February 22, 2019
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