BALI BRIT’S HELD OVER 3.5G DOPE

He faces 15 years in prison

ON PARADE: Zaid Thanoon

A TERRIFIED Brit has been paraded on television in a balaclava after being arrested for possessing 3.5 grams of cannabis in Indonesia.

Photographer Zaid Thanoon was allegedly found with £30 worth of marijuana hidden in a cigarette pack when he arrived at Bali airport.

The 26-year-old, from Sheffield, has been charged with possession and drugs trafficking and could face 15 years in jail. He was arrested at Ngurah Rai airport in Denpasar after getting off a flight from Bangkok, Thailand. Police later brought him before a press conference along with Chilean Victor Ortegarocha, who was arrested for a similar crime.

Indonesia has some of the world’s toughest anti-drugs laws, including capital punishment for traffickers.

It has executed several foreign and Indonesian drugs convicts by firing squad in recent years.

The punishment for trafficking cannabis is between five and 15 years for amounts under a kilo.

Anything over a kilo can result in life imprisonment or the death penalty.

Police said Thanoon had a tobacco pouch in his bag with “a plastic clip containing pieces of green plants”.

More than 150 people are on death row on the island, mostly for drug crimes.

Gran Lindsay Sandiford,

60, from Redcar, Teesside, has been on death row since December, 2012, for attempting to smuggle cocaine into Bali after arriving on a flight from Bangkok.

She admitted smuggling

4.8kg of the Class A drug, but said she was pressured by a smuggling gang.