Lindsay June Sandiford in the cell she now refuses to leave. Source: AFP
BRITISH woman Lindsay Sandiford is in shock and tears after being sentenced to death in Bali and won't leave her jail cell, refusing to even see her sister.
Guards at Bali's Kerobokan Jail said that the 56-year-old had spent most of the day in her cell crying and depressed and had not wanted to see anyone.
When her sister, Hilary Parsons came to the jail to visit her, she even refused to leave the cell to go to the visiting area and eventually Ms Parsons was escorted to the cell block, in highly unusual circumstances.
"She looked shocked and very depressed today. She also kept crying. She just locked herself in the cell and she doesn't want to talk and meet anyone," a female guard said.
Sandiford is being held in Cell number 10 at the women's block of the jail and has about 12 women in her cell.
She is not in a cell with Australians Schapelle Corby or Renae Lawrence, but in a cell especially for detainees, or women not yet convicted.
That however will now change with her conviction and death sentence handed down yesterday.
She will be one of four foreigners on death row in Kerobokan Jail.
One guard said that during her detention Sandiford, had been dubbed the "Queen of Cocaine" over the drug she was caught with in her suitcase as she flew in to Bali from Bangkok.
Schapelle Corby has long been dubbed the Queen of Marijuana by the Indonesian press.
Prior to her conviction this week, guards said that Sandiford had adapted well to prison life and spent time doing embroidery in the cell block.
But the prison itself is highly overcrowded and three times over capacity. There are 988 male and female prisoners in a jail originally built to house one-third that number.
There are 126 female prisoners held in 10 cells in the women's block area, known as Block W.
Sandiford, a grandmother, now joins almost 200 other people on death row in Indonesia.
She faces years of appeals. If she loses all of those in court, her final chance at reprieve will be to seek clemency from the Indonesian President.
It took Schapelle Corby seven years from the time of her conviction to receive her clemency, cutting her sentence from 20 years to 15 years.
Indonesia has not executed anyone since the Bali bombers in late 2008 and many analysts had believed this signaled an unofficial moratorium on the death penalty.
But then, at Christmas time, the Attorney-General's office announced that 10 prisoners would be executed in 2013.
Two Australians, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran of the Bali Nine, are on death row in Bali, having lost all their legal appeals.
They have lodged clemency pleas with the President, but these are yet to be decided.
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