![]() ![]() In his time in prison, he has become an accomplished artist, and his final painting – a heart dripping with blood, signed by all nine condemned prisoners – was removed from Nusa Kambangan by Indonesian officials on Tuesday.Ĭhinthu Sukumaran, brother of Myuran, who spoke of behalf of his family after returning from Nusa Kambanang for what is expected to be the final time, said: “We did talk about the death penalty and he knows this is just a waste. Myuran SukumaranĪrrested with Chan in 2005, Sukumaran, then 24, had also been living with his parents in Sydney, working in a mailroom. His brother, Michael Chan, described leaving him after a final visit on Tuesday as “torture”. On the eve of his execution Chan married his Indonesian girlfriend, Febyanti Herewila, in a ceremony on Nusa Kambangan, the prison island where he awaits the firing squad. Now 31, he has become a committed Christian and a pastor, and spends much of his day in prayer or religious study, and counselling other prisoners. In his time on Indonesia’s death row, those who have been in contact with him say he is an utterly changed man. He was found guilty and sentenced to death by firing squad. A 22-year-old still living with his parents in western Sydney, he was carrying no drugs, but was found guilty, along with Myuran Sukumaran, of masterminding a drug smuggling ring and recruiting seven other Australians – the so-called Bali Nine. Indonesia’s execution of eight drug offenders on Wednesday has drawn international condemnation – video report Guardian Andrew ChanĬhan was arrested in Denpasar in April 2005, on a flight bound for Australia. Her sister, Marites Veloso-Laurente, said their mother had had to explain to them “If Mumma does not go home, just think Mumma is in heaven.” However, the attorney general said the execution would go ahead. ![]() She was wanted on charges of illegal recruitment and human trafficking.Īn intervention by the Philippine president, Benigno Aquino raised hopes that his Indonesian counterpart, Joko Widodo, might be sympathetic to her case. On Tuesday the woman who recruited Veloso for that job, Maria Kristina Sergio, “voluntarily surrendered” to police in the Philippine province of Nueva Ecija. But her supporters say that poverty had made her susceptible to people traffickers, who promised her a job as a maid in Malaysia but instead made her an unwitting drug mule. Painted in court as a knowing drugs courier, she was sentenced to death. Veloso, aged 30, from the Philippines, was arrested in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2010 and found to be carrying a suitcase packed with 2.2kg (5lb) of heroin. ![]()
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