Manchester man in drugs arrest in Indonesia Published duration 17 September 2011

A British man has been arrested in Indonesia on suspicion of drug smuggling.

He is understood to be Jack Walker, a 53-year-old father-of-two from the Wythenshawe area of Manchester.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it was aware of the arrest of a British national at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Indonesia.

Indonesia has some of the toughest drug smuggling laws in Asia with several westerners facing the death penalty.