A Teesside grandmother is set to return to the UK after spending 12 years on death row in Indonesia. Under an agreement signed by the Indonesian government, Lindsay Sandiford will be repatriated alongside fellow Brit Shahab Shahabadi .
An Indonesian official said today: "The practical arrangement will be signed today. The transfer will be done immediately after the technical side of the transfer is agreed."
It's been over 13 years since the drugs mule, who previously lived in Redcar , was arrested when she arrived in Bali from Bangkok on May 19, 2012. Border control discovered 10lb of cocaine, estimated to be worth £1.6million, in her luggage. The pensioner, who had moved to India in 2012, insisted she had been forced to carry the Class A drugs by a criminal gang which had threatene