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A British grandmother who has been on death row in Bali for more than 10 years has been offered a glimmer of hope for escaping a firing squad.

Lindsay Sandiford has been imprisoned since 2013 for trying to smuggle £1.6 million cocaine into Indonesia in her suitcase.

The 67-year-old may have her sentence converted into a whole life term instead due to a law change being introduced in January, due to good behaviour behind bars.

Cellmates told The Mirror how the woman, dubbed the 'grandmother', enjoys special privileges including medium-rare steak dinners and teaches inmates how to knit.

Lawyers could argue for her to be returned to the UK, where she may be able to go free due to the time already served, the newspaper reported.

An inmate at Sandiford's prison told The Mirror: 'If she can get through to 2025 then she thinks she may be able to avoid the death penalty.'

Human rights barrister Felicity Gerry KC called for the grandmother to be returned to Britain.

She currently awaits being brought to Nusa Kambangan, known as Execution Island, from her cell in the Kerobokan jail.

Sandiford's cellmate told the newspaper that she 'is scared of dying but she has accepted it' while another con claimed she is 'foul-mouthed, antagonistic' and drives people out of her cell. 

The grandmother-of-two is locked up in one of the toughest prisons in Indonesia and the site of many deadly riots, known ironically as Hotel K.

Drug mule Sandiford was caught flying into Bali from Bangkok with 10.16 lb of cocaine in 2012.

Smugglers face severe penalties in the country as around 80 per cent of the prison's population are locked up on drug charges waiting to be executed, according to the Mirror.