A teenage woman who smuggled 3kg of cocaine into Indonesia has dodged execution in Bali after prosecutors asked for a lengthy jail term instead.
Accused Manuela Vitoria de Araujo Farias is now likely to be jailed for 12 years instead, which is a lenient sentence in the notoriously hard-line Indonesian justice system.
Friends and family of the 19-year-old Brazilian feared she would face the death penalty but prosecutors have asked the court to jail Farias for 12 years.
Her lawyer Davi Lira da Silva said: "We start from the premise that if the prosecution itself does not plead for capital punishment, the judge will not give it [...]."
Farias had claimed that she was tricked into smuggling the drugs by a gang who had told her of temples on the island where they pray for the sick, her lawyer said.
Her mother had previously suffered a stroke and so she decided to seek Buddhist prayers for a cure.
Her lawyer said: "They said that she could pray in the temples to ask for her mother's healing."
She was arrested at Bali International Airport in January after passing through airports in Brazil and Qatar after flying from Florianopolis in Brazil on 27th January.
The next trial date is scheduled for Tuesday May 30.
