Jeffrey Welton, a 52-year-old surfing and diving instructor from Western Australia, has avoided facing the death penalty in Indonesia and will instead spent eight months in a rehabilitation facility, after a judge on the island accepted that he was an addict and not a drug trafficker.

Mr Welton was arrested in September 2022 after being discovered smuggling eight grams of heroin and 0.34 grams of methamphetamine on a flight from Vietnam.

“I mean you don’t often see this story come out of Indonesia do you?” Karl said on 6PR Breakfast.

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