A New Zealand lawyer is challenging the British government to launch an inquiry into its consular services in the case of Lindsay Sandiford, a death row inmate at Bali's Kerobokan jail.
The UK's vice-consul Alys Harahap is appealing her dismissal from the foreign office over having a relationship with another British inmate, Julian Ponder, the UK's Mail on Sunday newspaper has reported.
Sandiford, 58, alleges it was Ponder, 44, who coerced her into carrying cocaine worth more than $3 million into Bali in 2012, by threatening her son's life.
While Sandiford was sentenced to death for her role as a mule, Ponder's charge was reduced to drug possession, and he received only six years in jail.
Mrs Harahap has reportedly been fired for her relationship with Ponder, who secretly recorded their phone sex from his jail cell and reported it.
Sandiford's lawyer, Craig Tuck, says there must be an inquiry into whether the improper relationship has further jeopardised his client's life.
He says it's "staggering" that Britain's top diplomat in Bali was in a romance with the man responsible for Sandiford being on death row.
Not only had the relationship between Ponder and Mrs Harahap meant Sandiford has received no consular help, but British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has refused to fund her appeal.
Indonesia's attorney-general will this week begin an evaluation of the executions of eight drug offenders, including Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.
He has already promised that the next round of executions will target drug offenders.
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