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Brit among three facing death penalty in £300k Bali coke smuggling plot is all smiles after foul-mouthed court rant
Police claim airport security found the cocaine in sealed Angel Delight packets during a random X-ray check
A BRIT facing the death penalty after being accused of a £300,000 coke smuggling plot was all smiles as he faced a court in Bali.
And Phineas Float told journalists to “f**k off” as he was led to face drug trafficking charges.
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Float, 31, arrived in a prison van at Bali's Denpasar Central Court with his wrists shackled and wearing a red prison vest over a white shirt.
He hurled abuse at the press while being walked to a holding cell.
In February, Float laughed and mugged for the cameras when Indonesian police paraded him and two other Brits before the media following their arrests.
He and his Brit co-accused, Jon Collyer, 37, and Lisa Stocker, 39, both of Gillingham, Kent, are charged with attempting to smuggle cocaine with a value of £300,000 into Bali on February 1.
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Stocker and Collyer allegedly brought the drugs into Bali’s Ngurah Rai international airport via Doha airport in Qatar.
The pair was arrested at the airport when security officials discovered suspicious items in their suitcase during a random X-ray check.
Police claim airport security seized 994.56g of cocaine in sealed blue plastic Angel Delight packets in Collyer’s suitcase.
Cops allege more cocaine was found in Stocker’s bag.
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It's claimed Float was expected to meet Collyer and Stocker at the airport.
Collyer and Stocker are being tried together and Float separately, although the trio appeared together in Denpasar today.
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White sitting inside the court, Float joked and smiled at Collyer while Stocker looked visibly upset.
The three Brits face death by firing squad if they are found guilty of the offence under Indonesia’s tough anti-drug laws.
The trio's fate will be decided by three judges, since Indonesia does not have a jury system.
Article 113 of Indonesia narcotics law states that anyone who imports or distributes drugs is subject to the death penalty.
The three have been held in Bali’s notorious Kerobokan prison and it has been reported that Float has gotten into fights with other inmates.
Prison authorities threatened him with being thrown into the feared “rat cell” isolation over an alleged recent brawl with another inmate.
Around 530 people, including 96 foreigners, are on death row in Indonesia, mostly for drug-related offences, according to the country's Ministry of Immigration and Corrections.
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