UK grandmother faces firing squad after drug appeal loss A 56-year-old British grandmother has lost her appeal against a sentence of death by firing squad for trafficking drugs in Indonesia. Britain's Foreign Office said it was "disappointed" after Lindsay Sandiford's sentence was upheld by a Bali court. She has 14 days to appeal to the supreme court. Sandiford (right) was accused of being at the centre of a drug ring involving three other Britons. She insisted that she was set up and was forced by a gang to smuggle drugs to protect her children. "We are disappointed to hear Lindsay Sandiford's appeal has been refused by the High Court in Bali," a spokesman for the British embassy in Jakarta said. The UK strongly opposes the death penalty and has repeatedly made representations to the Indonesian government on this matter. Sandiford was arrested in May last year on arrival from Bangkok at Bali's Denpasar airport after customs officials did a routine check and found nearly five kilograms of cocaine in the lining of her suitcase. Prosecutors recommended a 15-year jail sentence, but a panel of judges sentenced her to death. The judges ruled there were no mitigating circumstances, and that Sandiford had damaged Bali's image as a tourist destination and weakened Indonesia's tough anti-drugs program. Prisoners sentenced to death in Indonesia are executed by a 10-man firing squad. If Sandiford appeals to the supreme court and fails, her last resort would be to apply for clemency to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. He has granted clemency to four drug offenders on death row since taking office in 2004. Five foreign nationals have been executed in Indonesia since 1998, all for drug crimes. Even if her sentence is overturned on appeal, Sandiford could spend years waiting for her fate to be decided.