Second Australian sentenced to death in Bali trial
(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-02-14 14:02

An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced a second Australian man to die by firing squad for trying to smuggle heroin from the resort island of Bali in a high-profile drugs case.

The sentence matched what prosecutors had demanded for Myuran Sukumaran, one of the accused masterminds of a group of nine Australians arrested on Bali last April for attempting to smuggle more than 18 lb of heroin to Australia.

The verdict is the sixth handed down so far.

It follows a death sentence given to another accused mastermind earlier on Tuesday and life sentences imposed on four couriers who were caught at Bali's airport with heroin strapped to their bodies.

Sukumaran, 24, is from Sydney.