Three Brits accused of smuggling nearly a kilogram of into have been charged on the holiday island of Bali and face the death penalty under the country's strict drug laws. Convicted drug smugglers in Indonesia are sometimes executed by firing squad.

Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 28, and Lisa Ellen Stocker, 29, were arrested on February 1 after customs officers stopped them at an X-ray machine. Suspicions were raised when items were allegedly found in their luggage disguised as packs of food.

Prosecutor, I Made Dipa Umbara, told Denpasar's District Court a lab test result confirmed 10 sachets of Angel Delight powdered dessert mix in Mr Collyer's luggage combined with seven similar sachets in his partner's suitcase contained 993.56 grams (2.19 pounds) of cocaine, worth an estimated six billion rupiah (£271,729).

Indonesian authorities arrested Phineas Ambrose Float, 31, two days later after a controlled delivery set up by police in which the other two suspects handed the drug to him in the car park of a hotel in Denpasar. He is being tried separately.

Mr Umbara told the court the drugs were brought from England to Indonesia via a transit at Doha international airport in Qatar.

Ponco Indriyo, Deputy Director of the Bali Police Narcotics Unit, told a news conference in Denpasar on February 7 the group is also alleged to have successfully smuggled cocaine into Bali on two previous occasions before being caught on the third attempt.

After the charges against the three were read in court, a panel of three judges adjourned the trial till June 10, when the court will hear witness testimony.

Both the defendants and their lawyers declined to talk to the media after the hearing.

About 530 people, including 96 foreigners, are on death row in Indonesia, mostly for drug-related crimes, according to figures from the country's Ministry of Immigration and Corrections.

Indonesia's last executions, of an Indonesian and three foreigners, were carried out in July 2016.

A British woman, Lindsay Sandiford, now 69, has been on death row in Indonesia for more than a decade. She was arrested in 2012 when 3.8 kilograms of cocaine was discovered stuffed inside the lining of her luggage at Bali's airport.

Indonesia's highest court upheld the death sentence for Sandiford in 2013.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says Indonesia is a major drug-smuggling hub despite having some of the strictest drug laws in the world, in part because international drug syndicates target its young population.