British man on trial in Bali pleads for lenient sentence

Thomas Parker walks to a holding cell after his trial hearing in Bali. Picture: Firdia Lisnawati/AP

A British man on trial for drug offences has pleaded for leniency in a court on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali after a charge that could carry the death penalty was dropped.

Thomas Parker, from Cumbria, was arrested on January 21 at a villa near Kuta beach, a popular tourist spot, after he allegedly collected a package from a motorcycle taxi driver at a nearby street.