Ready to go home: Veloso, showing some batik designs she created during her time at Yogyakarta Women’s Correctional Institution Class IIB in Wonosari, Yogyakarta. — AFP
A Filipina drug convict on death row in Indonesia said from prison that her planned transfer was a “miracle”, in her first interview since Manila and Jakarta signed an agreement last week to repatriate her.
Mother of two Mary Jane Veloso, 39, was arrested and sentenced to death in 2010 after the suitcase she was carrying was found to be lined with 2.6kg of heroin, in a case that sparked uproar in the Philippines.
