A GRANDMOTHER expects to be facing a firing squad as she waits on death row in Bali after her sentence for drug smuggling.

According to a national newspaper, Lindsay Sandiford, originally from Redcar, has told a friend that she just wants to get it over with.

The 58-year-old made the remark after hearing that Andrew Chan, the leader of an Australian drugs gang, is to be shot this week along with eight other prisoners.

All members of the so-called Bali Nine heroin drug smuggling gang have been transferred to Indonesia's 'Execution Island' where they will face the firing squad.

The 58-year-old mother of two admitted smuggling cocaine worth £1.6 million from Thailand to Bali in 2012.

The grandmother, who lived in Cheltenham, always maintained she was coerced into the plan to protect her sons who she claimed had been threatened.

Earlier this year, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond stood firm on his refusal to fund her legal fight, despite a recommendation to do so by five Supreme Court judges in London who voiced concerns over the way her case had been handled and disparities between sentences for similar crimes.

Chan and his co-accused were transferred to Nusa Kambangan for execution in March.