Woman from Lenzie jailed for drug smuggling

A Lenzie woman has been jailed for six years and eight months after being caught trying to smuggle cocaine out of Peru.
By The Newsroom
Published 18th Dec 2013, 09:25 BST

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Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum, of Dungannon, County Tyrone, both 20, admitted trying to smuggle cocaine worth £1.5m.

They were jailed for eight years each, but the sentences were reduced because of their guilty pleas.

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The woman have insisted they were coerced and threatened into carrying the drugs in their cases.

They decided to plead guilty in the hope they would be given a shorter sentences.

It’s not known if they will be able to serve part of their sentence in the UK.

Melissa’s aunt Bernadette Gormal set up a Facebook site earlier this year to allow people to voice their support - and 3,545 people have ‘liked’ it.

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Melissa, a former Lenzie Academy pupil, spent her 20th birthday on August 16 in detention.

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