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tommy.irene — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 18:54:10 GMT

Peru Two sentenced for drug smuggling

Published Tuesday, 17 December 2013

Dungannon woman Michaella McCollum and Melissa Reid from Scotland have both been sentenced to six years and eight months for drug smuggling.

The two 20-year-olds have been held in custody in the South American country for the past five months after 11kg of cocaine was found in their luggage.

Both women maintained that they knew the drugs - worth an estimated £1.5m - were in their bags, but that a gang forced them at gunpoint to carry the cocaine.

The pair, who have already served four months in custody, faced a maximum of 15 years in prison if the case went to trial and they were found guilty.

They said they decided to plead guilty in the hope of getting a lighter sentence.

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right-then-petal — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:37:08 GMT

light sentence

look out for their book and film

and of course i'm a celebrity get me out

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sir_arthur_strebe-grebling — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 22:47:09 GMT

Now the campaign has started to get them to serve their terms in British jails. Why? Foreigners who come here to commit crimes are filling our jails, and it seems to be difficult to get rid of them when they have served their sentence. So why should these chav junkies be brought here as well?

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ronnybabes — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 23:10:13 GMT

Well said. That man...

Re: 6 years each.

tommy.irene — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 10:15:35 GMT

'Peru Two' could be freed in less than three years and serve part of sentence in UK: Girls jailed for attempting to smuggle £1.5m worth of cocaine

Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum were detained in August in Lima
Arrested on suspicion of trying to smuggle cocaine on a flight to Spain
Some 24lbs of cocaine worth £1.5m was allegedly found in their luggage
The two women from Scotland and Northern Ireland are jailed in Peru

As they walked into court yesterday, the casually dressed pair looked more like students en route to a lecture than two international drug smugglers.

The armed police and handcuffs on their wrists told a different story.

Minutes later, Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum Connolly were sentenced to six years and eight months in jail for attempting to smuggle £1.5million worth of cocaine out of Peru.

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merehazle — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:43:10 GMT

Never mind they will not get back here that quick.

Time enough at that TOUGH prison too soften them up quite a bit. And those damn cockroaches will sleep with them at night.

My uncle athur was in the mens wing.