The two British women accused of trying to smuggle £1.5million of cocaine out of Peru pleaded guilty in front of a judge yesterday.
Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum Connolly admitted trying to board a flight from Lima to Spain on August 6 knowing they had 24lb of the class-A drug in their suitcases. The women continue to claim that a gun-toting Colombian mafia forced them to act as drug mules.
But, after police rubbished their ‘illogical’ story, they decided to plead guilty in the hope of securing shorter sentences. They are expected to be jailed for six years and eight months at a hearing as early as next week.
This is 16 months shorter than the minimum sentence, eight years, in recognition of their early plea. It also means they will not have to stand trial on drugs trafficking charges. 'It means they automatically benefit from a sixth of the minimum jail sentence of eight years and will be sentenced to six years and eight months in prison.
Peru’s penal authority says 1,648 foreigners are currently in its prisons on drug trafficking charges, 31 of them British citizens.(We don't know how many Nigerians are there).
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