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A death row Redcar gran fears she may face the firing squad within weeks.

Lindsay Sandiford is in a Bali jail for trafficking cocaine worth £1.6m and all her appeals have so far been denied.

And now, according to a national newspaper, the 58-year-old believes her execution is imminent after she was asked to sign a court document tomorrow that formally confirms her death sentence.

As a result, it is reported that she now fears that this could effectively fast-track her execution after Indonesia’s new president Joko Widodo pledged to show no mercy to foreigners convicted of drug crimes.

“We want to send a warning to international drug syndicates that Indonesia doesn’t want to be a stopping place, market place or even a place for producers of narcotics,” said the newly elected leader speaking previously.

(Image: Reprieve/PA Wire)

Indonesia began a wave of executions last Sunday with five foreigners, including a Dutchman and a Brazilian, killed by firing squad.

Days later, the second of two Australians on Death Row in the same prison as Mrs Sandiford in Bali had their clemency appeals rejected. Andrew Chan, 31, and Myuran Sukumaran, 33, are now expected to be shot dead next month.

Mrs Sandiford, originally from Redcar, was sentenced to death in January 2013 after she was found with the cocaine as she arrived in Bali on a flight from Bangkok, Thailand, in May 2012. The grandmother and mum-of-two claimed she was forced to transport the drugs to protect her children, whose safety was at stake.

She has no legal representation after the British Government refused to fund a lawyer for her.

Last year she wrote to Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond asking him to reverse his decision not to pay the £38,000 costs of another appeal against her sentence.

Fundraisers from across the country raised money to help pay for a solicitor for Mrs Sandiford, who lived in Cheltenham before her arrest. She had criticised the UK Government, but lost an appeal against the policy to not provide funding for legal fees in July last year.