2 British girls arrested for drug smuggling in Peru

[Cuthbert]

Anyone seen this? Thoughts?

Terrified Michaella McCollum Connolly and Melissa Reid locked up in Peruvian jail for 'cocaine smuggling' | Mail Online

[Unknown Soldier]

Originally Posted by Fluffy Kittens

Anyone seen this? Thoughts?

Terrified Michaella McCollum Connolly and Melissa Reid locked up in Peruvian jail for 'cocaine smuggling' | Mail Online

Personally I find the whole story ridiculous, I mean they were supposedly threatened at gunpoint by some Colombians to carry the stuff and they didn't know what was in there! But then again if they didn't know the actual contents that they were carrying, they must've surely known it was something highly illegal and they had plenty of time to avoid the actual scenario with customs, as I doubt the Colombians were going to walk through customs with them.

Personally I think they're guilty or they've been framed, but their story now rules out the second possibility.

To actually smuggle from somewhere like Peru is literally playing Russian Roulette. It's normally drugs or jewellery with the punishment for the former much higher. For those that do it and don't get caught the prize is high, but I'd say the chances of getting caught are even higher, especially when you consider that they could face 25 years in jail.

I didn't read your link, so it might have added something that I didn't know.

[Circe]

The link is Daily Mail, ergo it's useless junk that's not worth reading anyway. They're innocent until proven guilty as always but I'm sceptical about them not having either a willing part in this or a positive incentive to go through with it. Like Unknown Soldier said, if they were being threatened by some kind of cartel they would have had plenty of chances to get out of it.

[Cuthbert]

Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

Personally I find the whole story ridiculous, I mean they were supposedly threatened at gunpoint by some Colombians to carry the stuff and they didn't know what was in there! But then again if they didn't know the actual contents that they were carrying, they must've surely known it was something highly illegal and they had plenty of time to avoid the actual scenario with customs, as I doubt the Colombians were going to walk through customs with them.

Personally I think they're guilty or they've been framed, but their story now rules out the second possibility.

To actually smuggle from somewhere like Peru is literally playing Russian Roulette. It's normally drugs or jewellery with the punishment for the former much higher. For those that do it and don't get caught the prize is high, but I'd say the chances of getting caught are even higher, especially when you consider that they could face 25 years in jail.

I didn't read your link, so it might have added something that I didn't know.

A priest who has spoken to them says he reckons they were forced and flew to Morocco first then back to mainland Spain before heading to Peru, which has got to be bollocks. If they'd had said something at Madrid airport someone would have helped them surely? No sympathy from me.

They can't play the innocent card - there's no way some bloke grabbed them off the street and 'forced' them to smuggle drugs. I've not been to Ibiza but know loads of people who have plenty of times and the drug culture isn't actually difficult to keep out of. They must have been courting it, and there's no way they didn't know what they were letting themselves in for.

Even if the cartel never mentioned the word 'drugs' or 'coke', they simply can't be stupid enough to think some bloke wants to give them £8k to bring 6kg of dried fucking soup back from fucking Peru.

It takes a special kind of stupid to smuggle 11kg of coke. In suitcases. Flying from Peru to Spain ffs . They clearly thought they were Billy big bollocks and they have been caught out. Just stupid beyond belief.

So they should forget playing the innocent card. Hope they get the book thrown at them good and proper.

"Free holiday and £8k cash? What could go wrong?"

"Oh noez, it went wrong - no no, that doesn't count!"

[Cuthbert]

Originally Posted by Circe

The link is Daily Mail, ergo it's useless junk that's not worth reading anyway. They're innocent until proven guilty as always but I'm sceptical about them not having either a willing part in this or a positive incentive to go through with it. Like Unknown Soldier said, if they were being threatened by some kind of cartel they would have had plenty of chances to get out of it.

First link I got off Google. BBC News - Peru drug arrests: Michaella McCollum denies wrongdoing

[Unknown Soldier]

Originally Posted by Fluffy Kittens

A priest who has spoken to them says he reckons they were forced and flew to Morocco first then back to mainland Spain before heading to Peru, which has got to be bollocks. If they'd had said something at Madrid airport someone would have helped them surely? No sympathy from me.

They can't play the innocent card - there's no way some bloke grabbed them off the street and 'forced' them to smuggle drugs. I've not been to Ibiza but know loads of people who have plenty of times and the drug culture isn't actually difficult to keep out of. They must have been courting it, and there's no way they didn't know what they were letting themselves in for.

Even if the cartel never mentioned the word 'drugs' or 'coke', they simply can't be stupid enough to think some bloke wants to give them £8k to bring 6kg of dried fucking soup back from fucking Peru.

It takes a special kind of stupid to smuggle 11kg of coke. In suitcases. Flying from Peru to Spain ffs . They clearly thought they were Billy big bollocks and they have been caught out. Just stupid beyond belief.

So they should forget playing the innocent card. Hope they get the book thrown at them good and proper.

"Free holiday and £8k cash? What could go wrong?"

"Oh noez, it went wrong - no no, that doesn't count!"

I shouldn't laugh as I do pity them, but the food stuff I saw did look like some fucking dried soup in packets As you said, they were looking to make a load of money transporting the stuff and were certainly coaxed into it in Ibiza, that it was going to be easy money and no problems. I can tell you, that the typical mule carrier from these places are normally single males that are mostly young, so they're thinking that being two up-together girls that they were going to be risk free. They seem guilty of the crime based on the facts, but their bigger crime surely must've been their sheer stupidity. Lima airport is full of baggage searchers, sometimes they use sniffer dogs, the usual baggage x-ray and very frequent random searches of persons as well, it really is customs central. The deterrent to smuggle is there to see, because most flights to Europe usually have long-delayed queues while searches are taking place and flights to Spain are usually the worst.

[Cuthbert]

VIDEO: New footage of Michaella McCollum Connolly in Peruvian jail - Independent.ie

New video. They are eating donuts.

Feel really sorry for their parents.

[hip hop bunny hop]

Originally Posted by Circe

The link is Daily Mail, ergo it's useless junk that's not worth reading anyway.

Why the hate for the Daily Mail?

[Circe]

It's a manipulative website that distorts and mirepresents facts and evidence in order to push a xenophobic, misogynist and generally hateful agenda onto the people stupid and naive enough to believe their miserable excuse for news, that's why.

[Unknown Soldier]

Originally Posted by Fluffy Kittens

VIDEO: New footage of Michaella McCollum Connolly in Peruvian jail - Independent.ie

New video. They are eating donuts.

Feel really sorry for their parents.

I don't know why they're bothering about asking them if they've got enough to eat. That will be the least of their worries if they're found guilty.

Originally Posted by Circe

It's a manipulative website that distorts and mirepresents facts and evidence in order to push a xenophobic, misogynist and generally hateful agenda onto the people stupid and naive enough to believe their miserable excuse for news, that's why.

Nicely said, couldn't have put it better myself.