British woman Lindsay Sandiford finally had the bittersweet privilege of meeting her granddaughter during several visitations at Kerobokan Prison last week.
The 59-year-old grandmother has been locked up since 2012 when she was caught carrying GBP1.6 million worth of cocaine from Thailand to Bali. Sandiford’s name was on a list of ten drug trafficking offenders slated for execution on September 21, according to the Daily Mail.
Which is why Sandiford begged her family to bring two-year-old Ayla to see her in Kerobokan—who was born just seven months after Sandiford’s arrest in May 2012.
But luckily for Sandiford, she likely won’t be executed in 2015, as the Daily Mail writes that her legal team was told by the Indonesian government that there will be a temporary stay of executions until the end of this year. However, an execution in January is apparently not out of the realm of possibility at the moment.
“I know this may be the first and last time I ever hold my granddaughter,” Sandiford said to the Mail on Sunday. Sandiford also had the privilege of seeing Ayla’s father, her son Lewis, 26, for the first time since her arrest.
Sandiford previously didn’t want Ayla to visit her in Kerobokan, explaining, “It would be better if she doesn’t know me.”
But things clearly changed when her name was put on that execution list.
Sandiford reportedly is trying to raise GBP25,000 for a final legal appeal against her death sentence since the British government denied her legal funding.
Photo: lindsaysandiford.org
