The Sydney Morning Herald
19 Jul 2008
LAWYERS for ABC journalist Peter Lloyd will raise questions about the circumstances surrounding his arrest for drug trafficking.
ABC lawyers have arrived in Singapore following the charging of Lloyd on Friday night. The journalist is alleged to have given a packet of crystalline substance, believed to contain methamphetamine, to a man named Sani Saidi, 31, in return for $100 at a Singapore hotel on July 9. A week later, he allegedly had a packet of a cystalline substance in a Singapore hotel room, where he was staying. It is understood that ABC lawyers will investigate what led Saidi to claim Lloyd had "sold" him the drug.
Colleagues say suspicions are emerging that Saidi had implicated Lloyd in exchange for a lesser charge.
If convicted of trafficking, Lloyd faces between five and 20 years in jail plus five to 15 strokes of the cane.
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