Race to save Redcar grandmother from death by firing squad

Lindsay Sandiford, 58, who is originally from Redcar, faces death by firing squad for smuggling 4.8g of cocaine worth £1.6m into Bali in 2012.

The former legal secretary has spoken of her distress after the execution of eight other drug smugglers on Wednesday which she described as "senseless and brutal".

Now her New Zealander lawyer, Craig Tuck, has revealed Ms Sandiford could face the firing squad within months.

Despite the recent deaths, there was some hope for Ms Sandiford, who has two sons and a granddaughter, after a Filipino woman was granted a stay of execution.

Mr Tuck said he was urgently trying to lodge a fresh appeal.

"Three months is really what we need but we have Indonesian lawyers that have documentation ready to go at short notice. We have no indication when the execution is likely but the Indonesian could advise us tomorrow. That would mean we have to file within 24 hours and that is the situation that keeps me awake at night."

Ms Sandiford, who was living in Cheltenham before she was caught drug smuggling, expressed sadness at the executions of Australians Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan on Wednesday.

In a statement she said: "The men shot dead were reformed men - good men who transformed the lives of people around them. Their senseless, brutal deaths leave the world a poorer place."

A campaign to raise funds for her appeal has raised almost £2,000.

Ms Sandiford has said she was coerced by smugglers who were threatening her sons. She cooperated with a sting operation that led to the arrest of three more Britons, who were given prison sentences for their part in the smuggling plot.

The Filipino woman who was granted a stay of execution, Mary Jane Veloso, 30, was spared after a woman alleged to have recruited her as a drug mule gave herself up in the Philippines. However authorities say Ms Veloso's execution has merely been postponed so she can provide more evidence.