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wednesday23 said:
Few rumours from the island today from people who lived in the same accommodation block as them in the bay. From rumours (which lets face it are often heresay but still quite entertaining) they did it for 11k each..... And a lot of people knew they where in Peru before the arrest came about and the Facebook missing campaign started.

The only naive part I can see is them thinking they would get away with it. I can't see any way they have been 100% tricked or forced into it. If you read all the other stories of people a similar age in Peru for similar offences they all did it for money after being told everyone had been paid off in the airport and they would get through easily and being told they had much less drugs on them than they actually did.
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Yeah, someone commented on friend's Facebook that she'd down an offer of £10k for pretty much the same run....
 
About 1% of the value of the gear. Small sums for very big risks aren't they ! Aside from anything else will probably cost bank of mum & dad more than that in consequential expenses to help and support them - under ten grand won't go far with intercontinental flights, hotels, lawyers etc. Hope it makes others thinking about doing something this stupid think again.
 
It's bad enough getting caught smoking pot at school, can't imagine what this must be like.

What a shame as well michaellas bang tidy.
 
TM78 said:
they were forced to take the bags...aye of course you were...
:lol:
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Was it this guy ? :o

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJUt_x0gwug">[video=youtube;HJUt_x0gwug]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJUt_x0gwug[/video]
 
The Irish girl comes across as quite vain. I suspect she wishes she had her hair down when arrested.

It's likely they were a decoy for a larger order going through at the same time. Also, they were probably given loads of freebies whilst on the island & then put under a great deal of pressure to carry out the order. Naivety v criminal ruthlesness. If they talk, they'll find themselves under threat from gangsters as well as fellow inmates. All in all, a complete shambles. And to think, she could be at Bora Bora right now having a little wiggle on the dancefloor.
 
West London Shadow said:
It's likely they were a decoy for a larger order going through at the same time. Also, they were probably given loads of freebies whilst on the island & then put under a great deal of pressure to carry out the order. Naivety v criminal ruthlesness. If they talk, they'll find themselves under threat from gangsters as well as fellow inmates. All in all, a complete shambles.
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Maybe a decoy or maybe just one of a steady stream. As kimajy pointed out, the fee was around 1% of the street value of the goods, so the traffickers can afford to send a few groups through and rely on the law of averages.

But I don't by this stuff about pressure, naivety, etc. A quick buck, a free trip to (the very lovely) Peru, and the rest of the summer kicking back in Ibiza... it's the kind of offer you're made, you stress a little about, and then you accept or decline. No one has to pressure you.
 
from another forum:

"They were in Ibiza, sl@gging it up, some men bought them a couple of bottles of Moët and got them changed up. One of them (prob the brunette) slept with one of them and so they got "involved" and got themselves in too deep. Silly sl@gs!"

"My sister's best mate is out there at the minute (''working'' :roll: ) and knows the british girl and apparently this is as close to exactly what happened as you can get."
 
"hi girls, your flight is leaving today so we'll bring you to the airport but before we go would you mind bringing my Auntie Fernandez a few packets of her favourite porridge???"

"yeah, no problem.. it's the least we could do for you, seeing as you've flown us halfway across the world for a free holiday!!"

:spank:
 
wednesday23 said:
Few rumours from the island today from people who lived in the same accommodation block as them in the bay. From rumours (which lets face it are often heresay but still quite entertaining) they did it for 11k each..... And a lot of people knew they where in Peru before the arrest came about and the Facebook missing campaign started.
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Haha

as for the decoy theory, why give them such a high amount if there was a high chance of being stopped. I don't think anyone would send someone through customs with 12 kilos unless they were sure it was a goer. It's a serious amount of gear to lose.
 
neilly303 said:
Haha

as for the decoy theory, why give them such a high amount if there was a high chance of being stopped. I don't think anyone would send someone through customs with 12 kilos unless they were sure it was a goer. It's a serious amount of gear to lose.
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Depends how much you are actually shifting I'd imagine, and much your people on the inside have to 'catch' to remain above suspicion/keep their bosses happy...
 
Buckley said:
Depends how much you are actually shifting I'd imagine, and much your people on the inside have to 'catch' to remain above suspicion/keep their bosses happy...
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Indeed and a few kg or so at a time through airport mules is just having a punt at offloading supply surpluses for petty cash for them. Be a few middlemen on commission keeping the mules trickling over. There's natural wastage in all supply and distribution networks and they'll be packaging that stuff up in Quaker and Jelly Powder packets by the tonne. The airport police will no doubt have seen those packets before on x-ray, just like batches of suitcases that have been packed with stuff. No-one at the airport is going to get intimidated for intercepting a few kilos of marching powder !

A great deal of the bigger shipments come through West Africa these days and they're dealing with it by the tonne so kind of puts it into perspective. http://www.instablogs.com/surplus-s...er-europe-a-super-cocaine-clearance-sale.html

I honestly think Morbyd's spot on with this one - they just punt the muled stuff through the airport and hope maybe 1 in 10 or more gets through. Any more is a bonus. It's like playing russian roulette with your liberty. The whole 'we've paid off the airport people' thing is the same old line that's been trotted out to every person who tells their story for decades. It's as reliable as a paper umbrella.
 
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deepseadiver said:
Looking at the two girls, who would have thought it?:?
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The airport security no doubt ! They get old grannies, businessmen, housewives, rich kids - even a US prison chief's son. basically you name it (preferably with no prior form) and they've had one do it. I reckon they're suspicious of everyone and anyone without exception - and with good reason.

Suckers come in all shapes and forms !
 
kimajy said:
I reckon they're suspicious of everyone and anyone without exception - and with good reason.

Suckers come in all shapes and forms !
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I bet they were both sweating like a glass blowers arse when then were going through.
 
deepseadiver said:
I bet they were both sweating like a glass blowers arse when then were going through.
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They looked alarmingly calm and composed to me - don't think they even made it far enough to go through anywhere ! Thing they probably didn't expect is that they x-ray search bags before check-in as you enter the International check-in area in many Latin American airports (used to do this in Johannesburg too even 10 years ago). In Panama and Bogota they also often put a sniffer dog checkpoint at the end of the check-in line to go over every bag, especially on flights to Spain, and in Cartagena for example all bags are searched manually by police before check-in even on regional international flights. It's not like UK ! Added to that was the reported missing in Spain angle if that had been picked up by Air Europa/Interpol.

The fact they didn't make it past check-in suggests to me the airport's standard procedures flushed out the gear at the 1st hurdle. If they'd flown in from Cuzco with it without challenge that figures, because it's a domestic flight and no customs/international controls. They'd most likely have had to check the bags back in again for the flight to Spain in any case.
 
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