A British man on trial for drug offences pleaded for leniency in an Indonesian court in Bali on Tuesday after a charge that could carry the death penalty was dropped.
Thomas Parker, from Cumbria, was arrested near Kuta beach in January after allegedly collecting a package from a taxi driver at a nearby street.
The package contained slightly over a kilogram of MDMA, a party drug and the main ingredient in ecstasy, according to a lab test result cited in court documents.
Parker, a 32-year-old electrician by trade, was initially charged with drug trafficking and could have faced the death penalty by firing squad if found guilty.
But the trafficking charge was dropped after police investigators determined that the package was not directly linked to him.
