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Originally Posted by anniek76
I am sure her sentence will be commuted to 15 years Ammi....in my mind , this turn around by the judge is more about showing the world what they can do but I doubt very much they will do it. There is the appeals process and clemency and I am sure our Foreign office will be involved too.
Whether she was naive or spinning a very good story about her children being threatened we will never know
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There isn't much that the FCO can do, really. They can't tell another country that their legal system is wrong, even thought they state categorically that they are against the death penalty. They can negotiate, but there's no guarantee they will be able to help. Apparently this woman is one of 12 Brits facing the death penalty around the world.
The death sentence for this crime has been in place there for years, it's not something they thought up for this particular woman, so the intimation that it's for the sake of the tourist industry is hard to believe. And all the stuff about her giving them information in order to lighten her own sentence might just be BS. I'd be interested to hear if anyone has been arrested on the strength of her evidence.