Three UK nationals found with £300,000 worth of cocaine in Bali are to be deported after becoming informants

29 December 2025 , 22:00

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Three UK nationals found with £300,000 worth of cocaine in Bali are to be deported after becoming informants

A trio of British drug mules who attempted to smuggle £300,000 worth of cocaine into Bali are reportedly set to be deported back to the UK after avoiding the death penalty.

Lisa Stocker, 39, a mother of three, was arrested with her partner Jonathan Collyer, 39, back in February. 

She was stopped after a routine X-ray of their luggage detected 17 packets of the dessert Angel Delight that had been packed with nearly a kilogram of cocaine. 

They had traveled from the UK to Bali via Qatar.

After being arrested, Stocker and Collyer became informants for Indonesian police and agreed to lure their accomplice into an ambush.

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Phinea Float, 31, was arrested a few days later when he showed up at the Grand Mas Airport Hotel car park to collect the haul of drugs.

The trio, all from East Sussex, appeared in Denpasar central court in July. All three admitted to trafficking drugs onto the resort island, a major reprieve in a country with some of the world’s toughest drug laws.

However, now, a judge has decided not to impose the death penalty and instead the trio were given a year in prison before deportation, the Mirror reports.

Despite Indonesia’s famously tough anti-drug laws, Prosecutor Made Umbara had urged Judge Heriyanti not to impose the death penalty. It is a dramatic show of tolerance by the Indonesian authorities, whose strict stance on drug trafficking has drawn criticism from across the globe.

James Turner