A British grandmother who had been on death row for smuggling $2.14 million worth of cocaine into Indonesia arrived back in the UK on Friday, AFP correspondents reported.

Lindsay Sandiford, 69, was sentenced to death on the tourist island of Bali in 2013 after she was convicted of drug trafficking.

Indonesia has some of the world's toughest drug laws, but has moved to release more than half a dozen high-profile detainees in the last year.

Sandiford was released on humanitarian grounds along with Shahab Shahabadi, 36, who had been serving a life sentence for drug offences after his arrest in 2014.

Both left Bali on a Qatar Airways flight to London via Doha, an official from Indonesia's law and human rights ministry confirmed to AFP on Friday.

Sandiford left Heathrow's Terminal 4 in a w

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