Three Brits who had been warned they faced the death penalty for smuggling drugs into Bali hidden in Angel Delight packets were today let off with just a one-year prison sentence.

The Indonesian court instead gave 12-month prison terms to the three British nationals, all from Hastings and St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex, who had been accused of drug running on the resort island.

Jonathan Christopher Collyer, 38, and Lisa Ellen Stocker, 39, were arrested on February 1 after being stopped at Bali's international airport with 17 packages of cocaine that weighed nearly a kilogram, according to public court records.

They appeared in court alongside Phineas Ambrose Float, 31, who was allegedly due to receive the packages from them and was arrested a few days later in February.

The trio appeared in distinctive white and red prison uniforms before a panel of judges at Denpasar District Court this morning.