A New Zealand woman has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in jail on drug-smuggling charges in Bali.
Myra Lynne Williams wept as she was led to a holding cell after sentencing in the Denpasar District Court on Thursday.
The 28-year-old, who has an eight-year-old son, behaved erratically when in an immigration queue at Bali airport last August while waiting for her passport to be stamped.
When a customs officer arrived, a plastic sachet containing 0.43 grams of methamphetamine fell out of her pocket.
Indonesia’s National Narcotics Agency says she subsequently confessed to taking methamphetamine, ecstasy and marijuana at a party the night before her flight.
Williams is from Taupo but had been living in Mornington, a suburb of Melbourne.
Her lawyer told the court she has a drug problem.
-RNZ
