Anyone else think the girls may not have been 'forced' into cocaine trafficking in Peru?

[Durlston]

It all sounds a bit dodgy to me.

Colombian gangsters holding a gun to their heads ready to blow their brains out and forcing them into bringing back 16kg worth of cocaine? I doubt they were strangers to the girls. They probably met them in Ibiza, got chatted up, wined, dined and treated like princesses with huge bundles of cash over the course of a few weeks if they could do a 'run' for them. At the age of the girls, it must have felt very exciting for them travelling to an exotic country without thinking what could happen with the dangers of getting caught.

Whatever the consequences, they've been incredibly naive and their futures look very bleak.

 

[Ernest]

Don't need to force anyone. Plenty of willing volunteers. Should be on Banged up Abroad in 10 years time

 

[Lord Bracknell]

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Colombian gangsters holding a gun to their heads ready to blow their brains out and forcing them into bringing back 16kg worth of cocaine?

According to their "exclusive" interview with The Mirror, it was "a shady Cockney character", in Ibiza who coerced them into this. Not Colombian gangsters.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/peru-drug-arrests-british-girls-2163013

 

[whitelion]

How could they not know what they were carrying? You don't get a gun put to your head to force you to carry food parcels.

 

[Hugo Rune]

According to their "exclusive" interview with The Mirror, it was "a shady Cockney character", in Ibiza who coerced them into this. Not Colombian gangsters.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/peru-drug-arrests-british-girls-2163013

Case closed!

End of thread!

 

[bha100]

It all sounds a bit dodgy to me.

Colombian gangsters holding a gun to their heads ready to blow their brains out and forcing them into bringing back 16kg worth of cocaine? I doubt they were strangers to the girls. They probably met them in Ibiza, got chatted up, wined, dined and treated like princesses with huge bundles of cash over the course of a few weeks if they could do a 'run' for them. At the age of the girls, it must have felt very exciting for them travelling to an exotic country without thinking what could happen with the dangers of getting caught.

Whatever the consequences, they've been incredibly naive and their futures look very bleak.

One of things that didn't add up, in the first video after they had just been caught when questioned Melissa said she did not know drugs were in her case yet in the daily mirror today she said

"We never knew until we saw the drugs what it was we were expected to take back.

"We had thought it was either money, guns or drugs but they never told us until the night before we flew back to Lima.

“We were held up in a dingy room and they placed the drugs in front of us.

"The men, all South American, told us to wrap the drugs up tightly in clothes to avoid being detected.

“We were both incredibly frightened and so at that point they threatened us again with our lives to make sure we went through with it.”



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[The Rivet]

You know, I think they are b/s'ters. What really annoys me is this. If it were two males there would be NO, and I repeat, NO major coverage in any media forum. You f up, take the consequences in a sexual equality fashion. Do your 5yrs women (not girls) where you are and then come home. It's only fair, you committed the crime there!

 

[Durlston]

You know, I think they are b/s'ters. What really annoys me is this. If it were two males there would be NO, and I repeat, NO major coverage in any media forum. You f up, take the consequences in a sexual equality fashion. Do your 5yrs women (not girls) where you are and then come home. It's only fair, you committed the crime there!

And that's why these criminal gangs use young, female, innocent looking mules with probably no criminal records, although the quotes from their parents allegedly seem to suggest they take drugs recreationally at home in Scotland.

 

[Springal]

Anyone else think the girls may not have been 'forced' into cocaine trafficking

My mate is working out there and lives in the same apartment block as one.

He is very surprised by the stories.
Make of that what you will

 

[Leighgull]

11 kilos? Bloody hell they must have been pretty ballsy to walk through with that lot. They can't have had any room for any clothes.

 

[sydney]

11 kilos is a effing long stretch.....15 -20 yrs at least.

 

[Justice]

This is what does not make sense if a drugs cartel had made real threats to harm my family before I boarded the plane I certainly wouldn't be shouting my mouth off if I got caught.

 

[fataddick]

Pathetic that the press are running this non-story. If they were smuggling drugs they need to do the time. Suggesting otherwise smacks of the whole Britains can do no wrong shit that surrounded that scumbag who shook a baby to death in the States. By and large the legal process is the same worldwide. Will cost the UK taxpayer a fortune either way re this case.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

It's hard to see beyond their apparent guilt.

They are presumably guilty of something. How does one end up in Peru smuggling drugs/with luggage full of drugs from a working holiday in Ibiza?

There is a small chance that they are guilty of naivety, maybe?

Obviously impossible to know, but it would be interesting to find out how many successful ops have been done via a plane/airport/sniffer dog.

 

[Lenny Rider]

We were discussing this at work yesterday have these birds almost been used as a decoy, when they were getting caught where their other people on the flight, perhaps also having had guns put to their heads, who got through customs with larger amounts of gear but better secreted?

 

[Surf's Up]

No.

 

[StonehamPark]

I'd like to think they are innocent but I'm not stupid enough to believe they went from partying/working in Ibiza, all the way over to Peru and then over the border with heavy suitcases not knowing what the hell was in them. And then afterwards, royally messing their stories up and losing almost all credibility.

If it was 2 guys, 19 and 20. They'd be in prison serving 15-20, end of.

Unlucky girls.

 

[dragonred]

they aren't the first and definitely won't be the last people who think it is easy job to make £8k money for a weeks 'work' - the stupid thing is did they really think the local customs and police would think it normal for 2 young European ladies to fly in and then fly out of a small Latin American Country without actually staying or having plans for a holiday in the country?! They may as well have worn flashing lights on their heads at their arrival gate saying 'Mules, nick me' as they would have stood out a country mile as drug mules!.......Idiots and as people say, if it were 2 men this would be a non story...if guilty as it looks likely, then let them do time there and when they come back, please lets not see them on day time TV talking about how awful and unfair their 'experience' has been!

 

[vegster]

11 kilos? Bloody hell they must have been pretty ballsy to walk through with that lot. They can't have had any room for any clothes.

They would have never got that weight of anything on a Ryanair flight.

 

[red star portslade]

I believe the custom men found a pound of crack down each of their panties.