Updated: Brighton man sentenced to six years over drug smuggling charges

8:19am Tuesday 29th January 2013 in News

A Brighton man has been sentenced to six years in prison for receiving cocaine in Indonesia from a British grandmother who was sentenced to death last week.

Julian Ponder, of Eastern Terrace in Brighton, was found guilty of being an accomplice to 56-year-old Lindsay Sandiford and was sentenced this morning and fined £65,000.

He was arrested for his part in a drug smuggling ring accused of bringing £1.6 million of cocaine into Bali from Thailand last May.

His legal representative said Mr Ponder was being advised to accept and not appeal his sentence.

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668 The neighbour of the beast says...
11:16am Tue 29 Jan 13

I seem to remember something about a different case where a sentence of having to watch Katie Price on television for a whole month was handed down.
After strenuous appeals, tireless work by the British consulate, and leniency shown by the country's King, the convicts sentence was commuted to the death.

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668 The neighbour of the beast says...
11:19am Tue 29 Jan 13

penalty

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Rocker says...
12:18pm Tue 29 Jan 13

This is a very weak story.

Interesting is that no one I know has ever heard of Ponder as an antiques dealer.

As a bankrupt,how could he afford properties here,there,and somewhere else?

Some investigative journalism is needed.

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MadammGeeky says...
2:21pm Tue 29 Jan 13

Here's an example of Indonesian justice:
http://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=Xcwj45r4B
6E

Yes, all true. The trial is an inconvenience, getting in the way of bribes and corruption. Appalling.

There's a website, Expendable.TV, which provides all the documentary proof you need. In that case, her government were to cowardly and corrupt themselves to do anything about it.

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MadammGeeky says...
2:22pm Tue 29 Jan 13

For anyone interested, this report documents the staggering list of human rights abuses at an Indonesian "trial":
http://www.expendabl
e.tv/2011/10/bali-tr
ial.html

Again, in that case, the smear machine made the problem go away for the Australian government. Let's hope the UK is less corrupt (I'm sure it is).

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AngelicDevil says...
3:26pm Tue 29 Jan 13

Not really bothered about Indonesian human rights abuses seeing as I don't plan on going there to do anything illegal.

What I do find strange though, is that Mr Ponder is only getting 6 years imprisonment whilst Ms Sandiford is getting the death penalty?

Shouldn't they both get the death penalty? Given that they are both complicit in the smuggling of drugs into Indonesia?

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Rocker says...
3:59pm Tue 29 Jan 13

He got caught with 40+ gms,a supply quantity. He met the old lady in Bangkok a few days before she carried the mother load through. He appears to live on fresh air.

Did he buy himself out of the death penalty?

What's the back story?

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