British nationals jailed in Indonesia for drug offences

From right, Phineas Float, Lisa Stocker and Jonathan Collyer are escorted by a security officer before their verdict at the district court in Denpasar, Bali (Firdia Lisnawati/AP)

Judges in Indonesia have sentenced a group of three British nationals to one year in jail for drug offences after a charge that could carry the death penalty was dropped.

Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 28, and his partner Lisa Ellen Stocker, 29, were arrested on February 1 after customs officers found 993 grammes (2.2 pounds) of cocaine worth an estimated six billion rupiah (£271,731). The drugs were hidden among sachets of powdered dessert mix.