Drugs questioning continues for Gordon Ramsay's brother

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay’s younger brother remains detained on the Indonesian island of Bali on heroin possession charges.

Ronnie Ramsay, 39, was carrying 100 milligrams of the illegal drug in his hand when he was searched by police on February 12 in a supermarket car park near the popular resort town of Kuta, said Maj. Gusti Putu Suryasa.

Mr Ramsay is still being questioned, but “told the police the heroin was for personal use,” the police spokesman said.

“He was walking suspiciously and the police stopped him and searched him,” Maj. Suryasa said. “He had the illegal drug in his hand.”

Under Indonesia’s tough drug laws Mr Ramsay could face a maximum 10-year jail sentence.

More than half of Indonesia’s prison population of 116,000 are drug offenders.

Traffickers are routinely sentenced to death. At the end of 2006, 134 people were on death row, including 37 foreigners and 97 Indonesians, most of them for drug-related crimes.