THE mother of a North-East man killed in the Bali bombing has backed calls for a change in a terrorist's death sentence.

Loraine Findley's son, Ian, was one of 202 people killed in the blast that ripped through the Sari Club and nearby Paddy's Bar, in Kuta, last October.

Mr Findley, 55, from West Pelton, near Chester-le-Street, had been on holiday with friends Ian Stafford and Kevin McVittie and was in the nightclub when the bomb went off. His two friends were both injured.

Yesterday, one of the orchestrators of the blast, Muslim mechanic Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, was sentenced to death for his part in the blast.

He is the first of dozens of suspects to face trial over the bombing. All are accused of being members of an Islamic militant group with links to al Qaida.

Mrs Findley said: "I feel the same as everyone else, that this man will be a martyr and all the others who get the same sentence will be too. He doesn't care tuppence for what he's done."

Mrs Findley, 82, from Grange Villa, County Durham, said she was shocked when she saw images of Amrozi bin Nurhasyim on television, realising he was one of the men responsible for her son's death.

Mr Findley, a divorcee with a grown-up daughter, worked as a panel-beater and ran a small garage business in Craghead, near Stanley, County Durham.

Mrs Findley attended part of the inquest into the deaths of the blast's 26 British victims in London and on Friday, August 1, attended a reception for victims' family members held by Prince Charles, at Highgrove Palace.