The Irish Government should hand the issue over to their British counterparts.......The Daily Mail is claiming them as their own 2 countries even fighting over drug smugglers now

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2395955/Peru-drugs-How-innicent-Melissa-Reid-Michaella-McCollum-Connolly.html

Our thoughts are with them, terrible thing to be caught up in, lets hope they get home from Cairo safely and soon.

Here is the link to the new story (which is more plausible) about being developed by an Illegal Taxi Driver)

The only thing against that is that in all my time in Ibiza I have never seen an English illegal Taxi. Dealers yes but they would never let you near their car

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2395965/Tell-truth-begs-father-drug-mule-girl-emotional-reunion-Peru-police-station.html

when at the airport in spain or peru, why didnt they just go to the police and tell them what happened.

wouldnt like to be her lawyer..........hows he gonna change this story?

Reading an account of life in a French village in south of France in 1951.
What strikes me is that nothing changes and people are the same everywhere.
They too loathed lawyers for the rapacious ba.star.ds they are.
They had a simple saying 'Homme de loi , homme de merde'.
Says it all really.

I think the Scottish girl is hotter.

There will probably be a book in this .  Just wonder who will be daft enough to buy it .

Two women accused of trying to smuggle £1.5m worth of cocaine out of Peru have pleaded guilty.
Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum, both 20, were stopped with 11kg (24lb) of cocaine hidden in food packets in their luggage while trying to board a flight to Spain on August 6.
Reid, from Glasgow, and McCollum, from Dungannon, Co Tyrone, originally claimed they were forced to carry the drugs by an armed gang which threatened them and their family members.
Their U-turn means they will not have to stand trial on drug trafficking charges.
Instead, it is likely they will be sentenced to six years and eight months in jail at a hearing which could take place as early as next week.
The two women admitted their guilt at a private hearing in a makeshift courtroom at a men's jail in Lima.
They were heard separately for half an hour each from 11am local time - 5pm in the UK - and asked their names and ages before being given the opportunity to speak.
The women's lawyer, Meyer Fishman, declined to comment, but a Callao court spokesman in charge of the investigation confirmed the guilty pleas.
"Both women have pleaded guilty to drugs trafficking," said the spokesman.
"It means they automatically benefit from a sixth off the minimum jail sentence of eight years and will be sentenced to six years and eight months in prison.
"Sentencing has not taken place yet and a new hearing where the women will be sentenced has now got to be arranged.
"But it's likely that will take place in around a week's time."
Reid and McCollum, who had both been working in Ibiza, were facing up to 15 years in prison if they had been found guilty in a trial.
Reid's parents insisted last week they still believed their daughter had been forced to carry the drugs, but a guilty plea was the best course of action to get her back to the UK.
Prosecutors previously indicated that the women could return home to serve their sentences if they pleaded guilty.
Reid was the first to consider changing her plea, maintaining she carried the drugs under duress and telling the Daily Mail: "Pleading guilty is going to enable me to get back to my family in Scotland sooner rather than later.
"I do not want to be in jail until 35 - I can't get back those years."
McCollum confirmed at the weekend that she too had changed her mind about continuing to protest her innocence.
"I understand that the judicial process will be simpler if we both plead guilty," said the 20-year-old.
"We are hoping we will not have to wait too long before we are sentenced and pleading guilty will speed things up."
The pair are currently being held at the notorious Virgen de Fatima prison in the Peruvian capital Lima.
Peruvian police and prosecutors said from the start they did not believe the women had been forced to smuggle the drugs.
Chief prosecutor Juan Mendoza Abarca claimed their stories were "incredible" and that they had been coached in what to say.
He added: "They staged this whole thing from the beginning because they knew it was possible they would get caught and if they did get caught they had the excuses really well planned.
"It's very obvious they were trained in what to say if they were caught. They were prepared in every sense."
A total of 248 "drug mules" were arrested at Lima's Jorge Chavez international airport in 2012, with nearly 1,600kg of illegal drugs confiscated.
The UN says Peru has overtaken Colombia as the world's largest grower of coca, the raw material of cocaine.

Go to youtube and watch locked up aboard in Peru !

Reading BJG,s post seems as if the daily mail is still giving some credence to the original story by allowing it to publish the line "Pleading guilty is going to enable me to get back to my family in Scotland sooner rather than later", a total rag of a paper.
Back to the opening post(which is not there) seems as if this was a totally misplaced appeal supporting two women who are pleading guilty to smuggling a large amount of cocaine.

really good to see that today the prosecution have rejected their gulty plea at this stage.it seems that their bullsh1t story about being kidnapped blah blah blah has not went down well over there.a simple guilty plea in order to get a lighter sentence is NOT good enough.it seems the prosecution want to hear THE TRUTH before accepting any plea,and rightly so! and i for one applaud their decision

just as well they are not going to fight the case anyway as the fund set up for michaela only raised 750 quid LMFAO

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