Australian drug carrier may get 15 years

Prosecutors have demanded a 15-year sentence for an Australian man caught attempting to smuggle a large quantity of hashish and the party drug ice into Bali in his stomach. Edward Myatt was indicted in May one count of drug trafficking and two counts of possession. The 54-year-old had been facing the possibility of a death sentence in relation to the trafficking charge. However, prosecutors at the Denpasar District Court on Wednesday demanded a sentence of 15 years. Myatt, from Ballarat in Victoria, was arrested in February at Bali's Ngurah Rai Airport attempting to import 1.1kg of hashish and four grams of methamphetamines in 72 plastic casings he'd swallowed. While he has admitted to picking up the drugs in Delhi after travelling to India from Yorkshire, England, where he had been living, Myatt has also claimed he made the smuggling run to Bali under pressure from another man, identified only as Roger. Indonesian authorities remain convinced, however, that he was working as a courier for an international drug-smuggling syndicate and suspect he had successfully imported drugs into Bali in the past.