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View all search resultsBritish govt opposes Briton's death sentence threat
The British government has requested that Indonesianprosecutors reconsider the death sentence they have requested for 43-year-oldBritish national Andrea Ruth Waldeck
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he British government has requested that Indonesianprosecutors reconsider the death sentence they have requested for 43-year-oldBritish national Andrea Ruth Waldeck.
Waldeck, an ex-police community supporter
officer from the English county of Gloucestershire, is being tried at Surabaya
State District court in connection with
narcotics distribution offences.
'We have received an official letter from the British
Embassy in Jakarta requesting prosecutors
reconsider the death penalty request for
Andrea. Further, in order to strengthen the argument, the embassy will send an official to testify in
Andrea's favor,' Andrea's lawyer
Oktavianto Prasongko told The Jakarta
Post after the court session on
Tuesday.
He said the embassy would present the facts
regarding Andrea's role as a community
police officer and social worker who dealt with drug addicts while serving in the UK.
'Most important is the fact she has never been
involved with any crime while serving and
living in her country,' Oktavianto said.
Besides Waldeck, the police also arrested two
other people in this case, Bayu Pracaka
and Hendrik Lesmana. Prosecutor Deddy Agus Oktavianto
said the prosecutors would also seek death sentences for both of them in the next court session.
To date, the police are still pursuing Ari
Wahyudi and Joe, Waldeck's Nigerian boyfriend, who are still at large.
According to Waldeck, Joe gave her the
drugs.
Waldeck was arrested by officers from the
National Narcotics Agency (BNN) with 1.4
kilograms of crystal methamphetamine worth more than U$20,000 at a hotel in Surabaya, after she passed
through airport screenings. (dic)
