Escape bid lands Dorfin on ‘Alcatraz’

Escape artist: Dorfin, seen here at his court appearance, will be spending the remaining of his 19 years jail sentence on a prison island. — AFP

Jakarta: A French drug smuggler who briefly faced execution in Indonesia will be transferred to a high-security prison island, dubbed the nation’s “Alcatraz”, following a second escape bid, a corrections official said.

Felix Dorfin, 35, was handed a capital sentence after his arrest last year at the airport in Lombok, a holiday island next to Bali, but his execution was commuted to 19 years in prison in August.