Briton sentenced to 10 months in jail in Bali after death penalty charge dropped

Thomas Parker, 32, sat silently as a panel of three judges at Denpasar District Court handed down the sentence (Firdia Lisnawati/AP)

A court on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali has sentenced a British man to 10 months in jail for drug offences 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 containing drugs from a motorcycle taxi driver on a nearby street.