A drug mule checks in at a British business class desk to fly home after escaping Bali execution.
An exclusive photo obtained by the Mirror shows Lisa Stocker, 40, and her partner, John Collier, 39, at the Priority counter in Bali – just four months after they were jailed for a £300,000 cocaine plot.
After escaping a firing squad in Bali, drug mule Brit Lisa Stocker and her partner check in for their flight home at the business class desk.
Our exclusive picture shows mom-of-three Stoker, 40, and her partner, John Collier, 39, at the Priority counter – just four months after being jailed for a £300,000 cocaine plot.
Along with partner Phineas Flot, 31, they feared they could be hanged under Indonesia’s tough drug laws before being sentenced in August.
Instead, laws that allow cuts over the Christmas and Independence Day holidays significantly reduced their sentences to just one year.
The move left them free to board flight QR963 from Bali to Doha at 6.50pm on Tuesday and then allowed them to connect for a flight to the UK.
If they were travelling on business, each seat would have cost at least £2,000. A source said, “It is surprising that they have been allowed to leave already given Bali’s stance on drug crime. But it is surprising to see them checking in at the premium counter.
Whatever cabin they ended up in, they must have considered it an incredible Christmas present to be released so early. They were almost certainly at home to celebrate New Year’s Eve.”
They were caught trying to bring 992 grams of cocaine hidden in 17 packets of Angel Delight to Paradise Island. But a judge at the Denpasar Central Court decided not to impose the death penalty after he admitted trafficking charges.
The court heard that Float had agreed to take part in the conspiracy for a “reward” of 500,000 Indonesian rupiah – the equivalent of just £22.50.
Prosecutor Med Umbara had urged Judge Herianti not to impose the death penalty, despite Indonesia’s famously strict laws.
Indonesian authorities viewed this as a dramatic display of tolerance. On February 1, a routine X-ray of their luggage revealed suspicious packages, leading to the arrest of Stocker and Collier at Bali’s international airport.
He had travelled from the UK to Bali via Qatar.
The couple told police they did not know the packages contained drugs and believed they were giving the British delicacies to a friend.
After their arrest, Stocker and Collier became informants for the Indonesian police and agreed to lure their partner into the ambush.
Floate was arrested on February 3 when he arrived at the Grand Mass Airport Hotel car park to collect his luggage.
The Mirror understands that Floate was released from prison on December 5 and held at a detention facility until he was deported on December 10.
An FCDO spokesperson said, “Three British nationals detained in Indonesia have now returned to the UK.”
His release and deportation come just weeks after British drug lord Lindsay Sandiford, 69, was freed after 13 years on death row.
The legal secretary spent more than a decade in Bali’s notorious Kerobokan prison after being caught with £1.6 million worth of cocaine in 2012.
But Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper struck a bilateral deal with Indonesian authorities to secure their release in October.
Sandiford was repatriated along with fellow British citizen Shahab Shahabadi, 35.
Shahab Shahabadi has been serving a life sentence since 2014 after his arrest during an investigation into an international drug trafficking network.
Officials say both Britons have suffered serious health difficulties.
The Foreign Office has refused to say whether Sandiford will be detained or immediately released because he is at home. But Indonesian authorities claimed he would be sent to jail after being sent back to Britain.
As part of the deal, an official stated that Sandiford’s “custody will be transferred to the United Kingdom,” indicating that he would still spend some time behind bars.
The Foreign Office was contacted for comment regarding the withdrawal of Stoker and Collier.
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