UK grandmother on Indonesia death row flies home

British death row inmates Lindsay Sandiford (R) and Shahab Shahabadi (L) attend a press conference before being repatriated under an agreement between Indonesia and the UK, at Kerobokan Prison in Badung regency on the resort island of Bali on November 6, 2025. - AFP

DENPASAR, Indonesia: Two British drug convicts including a grandmother on death row flew home early on Friday (Nov 7), as part of a deal to return them on humanitarian grounds.

Indonesia has some of the world's toughest drug laws, but has moved to release more than half a dozen high-profile detainees in the last year.