ESTA CIDADÃ BRITÂNICA DO CONDADO DE GLOUCESTER (pronuncie glócester) FOI CONDENADA À MORTE NA ILHA DE BALI, NA INDONÉSIA, POR TER SIDO ENCONTRADA COM MAIS DE 4 KILOS DE COCAÍNA NA BAGAGEM.
MORAL DA HISTÓRIA
NESTES PAÍSES DA ÁSIA, VOCÊ NÃO BRINCA COM O CRIME. COMO SE VÊ NESTE CASO, A PENA DE MORTE ESTÁ EM VIGOR. PORTANTO É IMPERATIVO NÃO PISAR O RISCO QUANDO ANDAMOS POR AQUELAS PARAGENS.
NA CONDENAÇÃO À MORTE DESTA INGLESA, OS JUÍZES INVOCARAM QUE A RÉ, A LINDSAY, NÃO SE PREOCUPOU MINIMAMENTE COM O MAL E EFEITOS DESVASTADORES QUE AQUELA DROGA IRIA CAUSAR NA POPULAÇÃO. SÓ QUEM PASSOU POR LÁ SABE O QUE É A TOXICO-DEPENDÊNCIA. AQUILO É TÃO DESVASTADOR EM QUEM TEM A DEPENDÊNCIA COMO NO SEU MEIO ENVOLVENTE, COMEÇANDO PELA FAMÍLIA. ESTE NEGÓCIO É SEM DÚVIDA UM CRIME ASQUEROSO. AS PENAS SÃO SEMPRE PESADAS, MESMO QUANDO NÃO HÁ CONDENAÇÃO À MORTE. QUEM SE ENVOLVE NETE TIPO DE CRIME TEM CERTAMENTE UMA MORAL MUITO BAIXA, DO PIORIO. QUER DIZER, NÃO TEM MORAL NEHUMA, JUNK.
EM 1994, EM SINGAPURA, TAMBÉM MATARAM UMA PORTUGUESA DE MACAU, IGUALMENTE DEVIDO A TRÁFICO DE DROGA. NÃO LHE VALEU O PEDIDO DE CLEMÊNCIA POR MÁRIO SOARES, ENTÃO PRESIDENTE DA REPÚBLICA PORTUGUESA. ALÉM DISSO, A CONDENADA TINHA UMA CRIANÇA DE TENRA IDADE. NADA LHE VALEU. FOI EXECUTADA. O NEGÓCIO DA DROGA É NEGÓCO SUJO E MUITÍSSIMO PERIGOSO.
NÃO DEIXE NINGUÉM METER NADA NA SUA MALA. NUNCA ACEITE TRANSPORTAR NADA DE NINGUÉM, PORQUE VOCÊ NÃO SABE O QUE LÁ VAI DENTRO. PORQUE DEPOIS, ESSA PESSOA QUE LHE PEDIU AJUDA IRÁ DIZER QUE AQUILO NÃO É DELA, E, QUE NEM SEQUER CONHECE A VOCÊ. "CUIDADO COM AS ILUDÊNCIAS PORQUE ELAS APARUDEM".
NÃO SE SOBREVALORIZE A METER PORCARIAS EM FORROS FALSOS E UTILIZAR OUTRAS ASTÚCIAS ESTÚPIDAS, PORQUE O PESSOAL DAS ALFÂNDEGAS JÁ CONHECE AS HISTÓRIAS TODAS, E A POLÍCIA TAMBÉM. ISSO É O PÃO DE CADA DIA. PORÉM, HÁ SEMPRE INTELIGENTES DA ESQUINA A PENSAR QUE ESTÃO A INVENTAR FAÇANHAS NOVAS, QUANDO TUDO ISSO JÁ É MUITO VELHO, ESTÁ GASTO. ATÉ HÁ QUEM META OS SAQUINOS DE DROGA NO PAPO. IMAGINE SE AQUILO REBENTAR, VOCÊ ATÉ VAI PASSAR A VIDA NO OUTRO MUNDO DROGADINHO ATÉ MORRER NOVAMENTE.
O PROBLEMA DA PENA DE MORTE É QUE POR VEZES OS CONDENADOS PODEM NÃO TER COMETIDO A INFRAÇÃO. A COROA EM INGLATERRA TEM RECENTEMENTE ABERTO CASOS EM QUE OS CONDENADOS FORAM EXECUTADOS, E DEPOIS VERIFICOU-SE, À LUZ DE PROVAS FORENSES, DE QUE HOJE DISPOMOS, QUE NÃO FORAM ELES QUE COMETERAM O CRIME. TARDE DE MAIS, JÁ FORAM. TALVEZ HÁ UNS DOIS ANOS, TAMBÉM LIBERTARAM NO REINO UNIDO UM RECLUSO ENCARCERADO HAVIA UNS 18 ANOS. CHEGARAM À CONCLUSÃO DE QUE NÃO TINHA SIDO ELE O AUTOR DO CRIME, OU O PROCESSO TERIA ESTADO VICIADO. PORTE-SE BEM. I REST MY CASE.
22 January 2013 Last updated at 10:27
Sandiford was held after a flight from Bangkok, Thailand in May last year
Bali drugs: Death sentence for Briton Lindsay Sandiford
A 56-year-old British grandmother has been sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug trafficking.
Lindsay Sandiford was arrested in May last year after Bali police, carrying out a routine customs check, found 4.8kg (10.6lb) of cocaine in the lining of her suitcase.
Sandiford, whose last UK address was in Gloucestershire, said she was coerced into bringing the drugs to the island.
Her lawyers said they were "surprised" at the verdict and would appeal.
Sandiford was held after a flight from Bangkok, Thailand.
Prosecutors had recommended a 15-year sentence of imprisonment.
But the judges said there were no mitigating circumstances and the defendant did not appear to care about the consequences of her actions.
They said Sandiford had damaged the image of Bali as a tourism destination and weakened the government's anti-drugs programme.
Sandiford's lawyer said it was very rare that judges delivered a sentence so much harsher than the prosecution had recommended, the BBC's Jakarta correspondent Karishma Vaswani reported from the court.
The defendant appeared shocked and covered her head with a brown sarong to hide her face from the glare of cameras, our correspondent added.
Sandiford, originally from Redcar in Teesside, was accused of being at the centre of a ring involving three other Britons.
Last year, Paul Beales was sentenced to four years for possession of drugs and Rachel Dougall was jailed for one year for failing to report a crime.
The drug possession trial of Julian Ponder, from Brighton - who is believed to be Dougall's partner - is still taking place. He is alleged to have collected cocaine from Sandiford.
Sandiford's case had been taken up by the British human rights charity Reprieve, which said she had been "targeted by drug traffickers who exploited her vulnerability and made threats against her children".
It says she was held for 10 days without access to a lawyer or translator after her arrest and the Indonesian authorities failed to inform the British embassy during this time.
In response to the sentence, Reprieve's Harriet McCulloch said: "She is clearly not a drug king pin - she has no money to pay for a lawyer, for the travel costs of defence witnesses or even for essentials like food and water.
"She has cooperated fully with the Indonesian authorities but has been sentenced to death while the gang operating in the UK, Thailand and Indonesia remain free to target other vulnerable people."
During the trial Sandiford's defence lawyer told Denpasar District Court that a history of mental health problems made her vulnerable.
In a witness statement, Mrs Sandiford apologised to "the Republic of Indonesia and the Indonesian people" for her involvement.
She added: "I would never have become involved in something like this but the lives of my children were in danger and I felt I had to protect them".
In another statement read out in court, her son Eliot said he believed his mother was forced into trafficking after a disagreement over rent money she paid on his behalf.
Indonesia has some of the toughest anti-drug laws in the world, but BBC correspondents say executions, which are carried out by firing squad, rarely take place.
Sandiford was held after a flight from Bangkok, Thailand in May last year
Five foreigners have been executed in Bali since 1998, all for drug crimes, according to Australia's Lowy Institute for International Policy.
Most of the 40 foreigners currently on death row have been convicted of drug crimes but there have been no executions since 2008 when the penalty was carried out for terrorism offences.
A spokeswoman for the UK Foreign Office said: "We can confirm that a British national is facing the death penalty in Indonesia. We remain in close contact with that national and continue to provide consular assistance.
"The UK remains strongly opposed to the death penalty in all circumstances."
BBC political correspondent Norman Smith said there was the possibility of pressure being applied by the UK government although officials would first wait to see how the appeals process worked out.
Cheltenham MP Martin Horwood said the verdict was unexpected and "very worrying" and he would seek to raise the sentence with Foreign Secretary William Hague.
"I'm appalled by this development," he told the BBC.
"We had been given encouraging signals by the Indonesian ambassador that Indonesia was moving away from the death penalty, that this was something that was associated with the days of the dictatorship, long since past."
Meanwhile, Sebastian Saville, the former chief executive of the human rights charity Release, said the sentence was "utterly deplorable".
But he said: "There are many people executed every year in local countries - Thailand, Cambodia - for much smaller amounts of drugs.... So it does not fall out of the remit for someone caught with 5kg of cocaine to be given the death sentence."
He added: "If we took a referendum in this country... should people caught with 5kg of cocaine be executed, yes or no... I think you'd be surprised about the number of yeses, as we live in a world which believes in punishment, not in fixing things."
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