UK woman gets 14 years' jail for drugs in Indonesia Andrea Waldeck of Great Britain greets the judge after being found guilty of drug trafficking charges in Surabaya, Indonesia. A BRITISH woman has been jailed for 14 years but escaped the death penalty after admitting that she smuggled crystal meth into Indonesia from China. Andrea Waldeck had confessed to taking the drugs through the airport in Surabaya, in the east of Indonesia's main Java island, hidden in her underwear but claimed she was coerced into carrying them. After being found guilty and sentenced at a Surabaya court, the former police worker hung her head as she was led down to the cells. The sentence was lower than prosecutors' recommendation of 16 years for the 43-year-old, who had smuggled 1.5 kilograms (three pounds) of crystal meth into Indonesia. She could have received the death sentence for smuggling that quantity of drugs under Indonesian anti-narcotics laws, which are some of the toughest in the world. "Andrea Waldeck has been proven legally and convincingly guilty of offering to sell or become a middle person to sell drugs," said presiding judge Faturrachman, who like many Indonesians goes by one name. He handed Waldeck a 14-year sentence and ordered her to pay a two-billion-rupiah ($167,000) fine. Andrea Waldeck of Great Britain attends a final court hearing charged with drug trafficking in Surabaya, Indonesia. But he said the sentence was lighter than the recommendation as Waldeck had "honestly admitted her mistake, which helped the trial proceed smoothly." After the verdict Waldeck said she was still considering whether to appeal. Wearing a white shirt, black trousers and red waistcoat of the type worn by prisoners in Indonesia, she looked nervous at Wednesday's hearing, biting her bottom lip as she listened to a translation of proceedings. Waldeck admitted at a previous hearing that she had smuggled the drugs into Indonesia from China. She was arrested late April at a hotel in Surabaya after she managed to sneak through airport security in the city with the drugs hidden in four plastic bags in her underwear, according to her indictment. Two members of a drugs gang had been en route to the hotel to pick up the narcotics - but police knew about the plan and managed to get there first and arrest Waldeck, it said. She claimed that her boyfriend in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou had asked her to traffic the drugs in exchange for $5000, according to her indictment. She had previously worked in southwestern England as a police community support officer, a part-time member of the police with limited powers. Foreigners regularly fall foul of Indonesia's tough anti-drugs laws. British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford was sentenced to death in January last year after she was caught trying to bring $2.4 million worth of cocaine into the Indonesian resort island of Bali. French drug smuggler Michael Blanc was freed from prison in Jakarta this week on parole after 14 years behind bars, a rare early release for a foreigner