They had plenty of chances to tell to autorities they where being forced ... at any time on planes, in airports! Or even when walking into the airport with the drugs - the "criminals" woudl not have known if they wre caught or gave themselves up. "Hello Mr Security gaurd, I have been forced to carry this suitcase full of drugs as I was kidnapped/held at gunpoint/forced."
If they gave themselves up, they criminals wouldn't know either way... plenty of time to get word to teh UK cops etc. It's a 100% bullshit story.
The wee lassie from the Emerald Isle will not be home for a few years at the least. They're ****ed, plain and simple.
Link me to a page where a foreigner has been caught with a large amount of coke in South American and and returned home within 3 years.
A solicitor for a Northern Irish woman accused of cocaine smuggling in Peru has said she had been "kidnapped" and forced to carry the drugs under threat. Michaella McCollum, from Dungannon and Melissa Reid, from Lenzie near Glasgow, both 20, are accused of trying to smuggle £1.5m worth of cocaine. They were stopped on 6 August when they tried to board a flight from Lima airport to Madrid. Solicitor Peter Madden visited Ms McCollum on Friday. "She was in fact kidnapped, held at gunpoint and forced by threat to obtain and carry drugs back to Lima," Mr Madden said. "She wasn't offered any money, she was threatened and held. She is now prepared and ready to give full details to the police who are in a questioning process." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-23738159 Bring the wee girl home to her mummy and daddy Peter
