A British grandmother who has spent 12 years on death row in Indonesia for drug smuggling will be returned to the UK, an Indonesian government minister has said.

Lindsay Sandiford, originally from Redcar, Teesside, was arrested in Bali in May 2012 after customs officers found cocaine worth £1.6m in her luggage.

The 69-year-old was sentenced to death by firing squad the following January but has been held in jail since.

Yusril Ihza Mahendra, a senior Indonesian minister on legal affairs, said the two countries had agreed to release Sandiford on humanitarian grounds.

"Lindsay is old and sick," he said.

"In prison she had good behaviour so that was enough reason to satisfy the request from the United Kingdom government that she be returned home and complete her sentence there."

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