Jason Scott McIntyre, from Humpty Doo has been jailed for 8 months for carrying about five grams of hashish.

He was lucky to escape the maximum sentence of 10 years.

“(But) the defendant regrets what he did and has promised not to do it again,” Chief judge Sigit Sutanto said.

“He has a right to recover from his narcotics addiction.”

He joins a growing number of foreigners and Australians having an extended stay in Bali’s Kerobokan prison.