'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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