balinews Friend of Alys Harahap – the British diplomat accused of an affair at a jail where grandmother Lindsay Sandiford is on death row – came to Featureworld to ‘put a stop once and for all’ to ‘absurd claims about any affair with a convicted drug dealer’ A friend of Ms Harahap, a Cambridge-eduated mother of two – has now spoken out to quash ‘the ridiculous lies peddled by jailed drug lord Julian Ponder.’ For almost a year Ponder has boasted he and Alys Harahap, the vice-consul and Britain’s top diplomat in Bali had fallen in love. As a result of the allegations made by Julian Ponder – also known as Bali’s Mr Big – who was jailed for six years for his alleged part in a drugs smuggling ring, Ms Harahap has been suspended from her job. The move, it’s claims, has left Lindsay Sandiford, found guilty of smuggling £1.5million worth of cocaine from Thailand to Bali, on death row without full diplomatic support. The source claimed Ms Harahap has been forbidden by the Foreign Office to to speak out and defend herself against the claims. He said she’d been ‘thrown to the wolves’ by the Foreign Office because they had not sought to quash the claims and her silence has been interpreted as guilt. Alys Harahap never had affair | Mail on Sunday, Featureworld
