A British grandmother sentenced to death in Indonesia for smuggling $2.5 million worth of cocaine is writing desperate letters to celebrities, begging for their help to get her death sentence overturned, saying she expects to be killed any day now.
Deborah Hastings NEW YORK DAILY NEWS 05/06/2015 5:18 PM ET
Updated: 05/06/2015 5:18 PM ET
A British grandmother sentenced to death in Indonesia for smuggling $2.5 million worth of cocaine is writing desperate letters to celebrities, begging for their help to get her death sentence overturned, saying she expects to be killed any day now.
Lindsay Sandiford, 58, has sent missives to actor and human-rights activist Russell Brand, as well as to Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, pleading for them to use their influence and positions to save her from being executed by a firing squad.
GRANNY LINDSAY SANDIFORD SENTENCED TO DEATH IN 2013 FOR SMUGGLING COCAINE INTO INDONESIA
She was sentenced to death in 2013 after being convicted of being a drug mule who carried 8.4 pounds of cocaine, secreted in the lining of her luggage, from Thailand to Bali as part of the “Bali Nine” group of smugglers.
Her fellow ferriers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, both of Australia, were executed by firing squad last month.
Brand had asked for clemency in their death sentences.
“My situation is extremely urgent and if you can raise awareness of my case in any way it would be a great help and comfort to me, “Sandiford wrote to the actor and comedian, Britain’s The Independent reported Wednesday.
Australians Andrew Chan, center, and Myuran Sukumaran, left, are seen in 2010 in an Indonesian holding cell. The pair, part of the Bali Nine drug smuggling group, were exectuted by firing squad in April.
To Branson, she wrote that she “could be executed at any time” and begged him to act on her behalf, as he had for Chan.
She was “hugely impressed and moved to see you speak out against the execution of the prisoners last week including Andrew, who was a close friend of mine,” Sandiford wrote, according to the BBC.
In an article published in Britain’s the Mail on Sunday, Sandiford said she was writing farewell letters to her two grown children. She wrote she would not wear a blindfold at her execution.
“I’ll look them in the eye and be singing ‘Magic Moments’ when they shoot me.”
