I spent three years in a Lima prison for smuggling £1.5million of cocaine - it's alarming young female solo travellers are still being targeted by drugs gangs

I spent three years in a Lima prison for smuggling £1.5million of cocaine - it's alarming young female solo travellers are still being targeted by drugs gangs

Michaella McCollum and Melissa Reid were 20 when they became friends holidaying on the party island in August 2013 and were soon coerced into sneaking £1.5million worth of cocaine into Peru.

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