Running out of time on death row in Bali
British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford has few options left as she tries to avoid the firing squad for trafficking 4.8kg of cocaine to Bali
In her cell on death row in Bali, Indonesia, a 56-year-old grandmother sits on a thin mattress and - in sweltering 35 degrees Celsius heat - knits elaborate jumpers and cardigans to send to relatives and friends in Britain.
A stocky, blunt-speaking former legal secretary from the north of England, she would look more at home eating ice cream by the seaside in Britain than playing a deadly bit part in the high-stakes cocaine world of Bali.
As she slowly stitches neat patterns in her cell, however, time is quickly running out for her to escape the firing squad.
Her appeal against the death penalty was rejected on April 8 and her family and supporters are frantically trying to raise the HK$95,000 needed for Sandiford to take her case one step further to the Supreme Court in Jakarta.
By yesterday - the day her appeal was lodged - only about two-thirds of the money needed to fund it had been raised, all of it through a Just Giving online appeal set up by well-wishers. The British government has refused to fund her appeals and won a High Court case in London on Monday that would have forced it to do so.
The plight of this incongruous drug smuggler has provoked an outcry from Britain where the Foreign Office, while refusing to fund her appeals, and a former top prosecutor have criticised the death penalty she received as unnecessarily harsh.