{"id":57058,"date":"2026-02-26T07:30:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/british-men-jailed-for-smuggling-cocaine-into-bali\/26\/02\/2026\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T07:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:30:36","slug":"british-men-jailed-for-smuggling-cocaine-into-bali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/british-men-jailed-for-smuggling-cocaine-into-bali\/26\/02\/2026\/","title":{"rendered":"British men jailed for smuggling cocaine into Bali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two British men have been jailed in Indonesia after being found guilty of smuggling cocaine into the holiday island of Bali.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kial Garth Robinson, 29, of Littlehampton, was sentenced to 11 years in prison, while Piran Ezra Wilkinson, 48, from Chichester, was jailed for nine years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Both were also ordered to pay a fine of around \u00a345,000 or serve an extra 190 days in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Robinson was arrested last September when customs officers at Ngurah Rai International Airport found two packages containing 1.3kg of cocaine in his backpack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He told police that he was ordered by a man to transport the drugs from Barcelona, Spain, to Bali and deliver them to Wilkinson &#8211; who had arrived a few days earlier, Reuters news agency reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wilkinson was arrested in Canggu, on the south coast of Bali, the following day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Prosecutors said Robinson and Wilkinson were friends who lived in Thailand and had met in Barcelona a week before their arrests.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>Kial Robinson sits with his lawyer inside the Denpasar District Court in Bali [Reuters]<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Thursday, Robinson&#8217;s lawyer Robert Khuana said: &#8220;These items were brought from Barcelona to Bali, but they aren&#8217;t meant for distribution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;My client was purely a courier, but he knew he was trapped in a syndicate scenario and was persuaded with $5,000 and another $5,000 for debt repayment and he was therefore willing to bring the drugs to Bali.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;What made the sentence harsher was that his actions threatened the security against drug distributions in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Although he didn&#8217;t know the contents of the package, he knew the contents were dangerous. If he had known, he wouldn&#8217;t have done what he did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Indonesia has some of the world&#8217;s strictest anti-narcotics laws and drug trafficking can be punishable by death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Although Indonesia has executed foreigners in the past, it has upheld a temporary halt on the death sentence since 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Indonesia last carried out executions of foreigners in 2016, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-36920293?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:killing three Nigerian drug convicts by firing squad;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">killing three Nigerian drug convicts by firing squad<\/a>, according to AFP,<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Last July, three British nationals from Sussex avoided the death penalty for smuggling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c04d4pyxv97o?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:cocaine disguised as packets of Angel Delight into the country.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">cocaine disguised as packets of Angel Delight into the country.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lisa Stocker, 39, and her husband Jon Collyer, 38, were arrested at Bali&#8217;s international airport in February 2025 after being caught with 994g of the Class A drug. Phineas Float, 31, was due to receive the packages and was arrested a few days later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">All three, from Hastings and St Leonards, East Sussex, were told by the judge that they would only serve a 12-month sentence and would be eligible for release in early 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto&#8217;s administration has moved in recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cm20525466zo?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:months to repatriate several high-profile inmates;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">months to repatriate several high-profile inmates<\/a>, all sentenced for drug offences, back to their home countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/two-brits-jailed-smuggling-cocaine-115936050.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two British men have been jailed in Indonesia after being found guilty of smuggling cocaine into the holiday island of Bali. 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