The 'drug smuggler from suburbia': Chaotic life of the middle-aged British housewife, 56, caught 'carrying £1.6million of cocaine into Bali'

Five years ago she was a seemingly ordinary housewife, living in a modest house on a suburban street.

Tonight, British mother-of-two Lindsay Sandiford was languishing in a Bali jail cell after being arrested for allegedly smuggling £1.6million of cocaine. 


She has already faced the shame of being paraded before the media, bowing her head and hiding her tears with her hands. 


But the 56-year-old single mother's eventual fate could be far worse. Cocaine smuggling on such a scale - police claim they caught her with 4.7kg of the Class A drug - is punishable by death by firing squad.

Back on the street that she once called home in the genteel town of Cheltenham, her former neighbours did not seem entirely surprised.                  Read Here