"A prison transfer scheme would bring significant financial and resource implications for New Zealand and its prison system," she said. Key arrives in Indonesia for trade talks tonight, and de Malmanche is appealing to the Government to allow him to be transferred to a New Zealand prison. A New Zealander locked up in an Indonesian jail has made a personal plea to Prime Minister John Key to help get him home. Antony de Malmanche, from Whanganui, is serving a 15-year sentence in a Bali prison for drug-smuggling. De Malmanche appealed to the Prime Minister to take the unprecedented step of permitting a transfer from Kerobokan Prison.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 16, 2016 17:03 UTC