World news sentenced to 10 months in Bali for drug crimes after a British person allegations of death sentence

A court of Indonesian tourist island Bali on Tuesday sentenced a British man to a British man for drug offenses to a British man, who could drop the death sentence. Thomas Parker from Cumbria, Northwest England, was arrested on January 21 in a Villa near Kuta Beach, when he allegedly collected a package containing drugs from a motorcycle taxi driver on a nearby road. Police officials said that according to the court documents to Parker, “was working suspicious” while collecting the package “. He reportedly left him in panic and ran away when the police approached him. He was found back in the villa where he was living and arrested. A laboratory testing confirmed a slightly more package than kilograms of MDMA (2.326 pounds), which is the main component in ecstasy, the document said. During the police investigation, the 32 -year -old electrician was able to prove that he did not order the package. It was sent by a drug dealer friend, known only as Nikki, which Parker had had known for about two years and spoke regularly through the Telegram messaging app. Parker was told that a person would pick him up soon, and in return he was made money or anything else. The police reduced the initial charge of drug smuggling, which bear the probable death sentence, after a low serious crime of hiding information from the authorities, the investigators determined that the package was not directly connected to it. During the trial, which began in the Denpasar District Court last month, Parker told the court that he had initially refused to gather the package, but after Nikki assured him, he agreed to do it that the package was safe and would not put it in danger. The prosecutors sought a one -year prison for Parker on 6 May, but the judges said they reduced the fine as Parker regretted his acts, was not convicted earlier and promised to improve. Parker was sitting quietly as a panel of three judges in Denpasar district court. The judges also ordered the time that he has already served as he was arrested for cutting from his sentence, which means he will be freed in several months. After the judges read the sentence, Parker said they accepted the decision and would not appeal. Prosecutors must decide whether to accept it within a week. “I really, really everything that has happened,” Parker said. “I am sorry and follow the judge’s decision.” Indonesia has very strict drug laws and guilty smugglers can be executed by a firing squad. Around 530 people are on Death Row in Indonesia, mostly for drug -related crimes, including 96 foreigners, Ministry of Immigration and Reform. The final execution of Indonesian and three foreigners was done in July 2016.