A GRANDMOTHER who is facing a firing squad has vowed to look the gunmen right in the eye before she is shot.

Lindsay Sandiford, originally from Redcar, revealed she has started writing goodbye letters to her family, having run out of time and money to seek a reprieve.

The 58-year-old former legal secretary has been on death row in Indonesia for more than two years after her conviction in December 2012 of smuggling £1.6m worth of cocaine into Bali.

In a moving statement written for The Mail on Sunday, she told how she would like to see her granddaughter, who was born after her incarceration, "but at the same time I feel it would be better if she doesn't know me".

Ms Sandiford, who lived in Cheltenham before moving to India for two years, was writing after the execution last week of eight convicted drug smugglers, including two Australians, one of whom was a close friend.

She revealed that she plans to reject any offer of a blindfold as they did and sing the light-hearted song 'Magic Moments'.

"The executions have forced me to think about how I am going to handle the situation when my own time comes. I won't wear a blindfold. It's not because I'm brave but because I don't want to hide - I want them to look at me when they shoot me.

"I'll sing too, but not Amazing Grace (sung by her friend Andrew Chan). I'll sing Magic Moments by Perry Como. I had a boyfriend who used to change the lyrics of songs and play them on his Hammond organ to make me laugh. That was one of the songs he sang and it reminds me of those long-ago days."

She also told of her decision not to see see her two-year-old granddaughter and to ask her family not to attend her execution.

Explaining she didn't want the "macabre circus" of the media photographing her grieving family, she added: "I long to see her (her granddaughter) and to hold her, but at the same time I feel it would be better if she doesn't know me. When she grows up, I want her to know I wasn't bad person."

She added that the only chance to avoid execution was to file for a 'pk' hearing, effectively a full retrial. However she doesn't have the money to fund it.

The Supreme Court in London recommended the Government consider funding her appeal, but Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond refused. A Facebook campaign has been set up in an attempt to raise the cash.

Ms Sandiford, said she was now the only death row prisoner left in Kerobokan prison and the Indonesian authorities want all executions for drug offences carried out by the end of the year.

She admitted the drug smuggling offences, but claimed she was coerced by threats to her son's life, and has since appealed against her sentence without success.

Her evidence helped secure the arrest of Julian Ponder, believed to be a major figure in a drugs syndicate who has since been convicted for drug trafficking. However, Ponder was not given the death penalty.