article_snippet.sent: British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford was arrested trying to smuggle an estimated £1.6million worth of cocaine from Bankok into Bali .
article_snippet.sent: Sandiford, from Cheltenham, admitted smuggling cocaine worth £1.6 million from Bangkok to Bali in 2012, but claims she was coerced into the crime by a syndicate that threatened she sons.
article_snippet.sent: she took part in a police sting that led to the arrest of the syndicate’s leaders.
article_snippet.sent: The syndicate’s alleged leader, former Brighton antiques dealer Julian Ponder, 44, was jailed for six years.
article_snippet.sent: Sandiford has been refused funding for an appeal against she sentence by the British Government and has rejected consular assistance, in part because of a romance between Ponder and the British Vice-Consul to Bali, Alys Harahap, that led to Harahap’s suspension.
article_snippet.sent: A website and Facebook page launched in Sandiford’s name to fund a retrial had by yesterday raised only around £700 towards the tens of thousands of pounds needed for a legal challenge to go ahead.
highlights_snippet.sent: British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford was convicted of smuggling drugs .
  