Drugs Mules or innocent ?

[doodab]

It's not a small amount.

No, but my point is that it cost whomever paid for it closer to £50,000 than £1.5 million.

[eek]

No, but my point is that it cost whomever paid for it closer to £50,000 than £1.5 million.

I doubt its even £50,000. The more I read about it the more I'm sure the story I posted is true.

[doodab]

I doubt its even £50,000. The more I read about it the more I'm sure the story I posted is true.

I'm not convinced. The Peruvian authorities seize 20-30 tons of coke a year. This has made the papers here because it's two British girls, it probably didn't even make the 6 o clock news in Peru.

[MaryPoppins]

There's few hard facts and narco police aren't exactly known for their respect for the truth, but my call is that they started off nearly innocent as users who found they could self finance then got a bit greedier and found that the ways out weren't attractive.

To me the telling fact is the size of the haul.

They were being trusted with a decent sized asset, 1.5 million worth according to the (almost nearly trustworthy) narco police.

If you're doing a transaction of that, you want people handling it who won't hand it over to the police and even if you've issued industry standard threats there is the issue that a lot of 20 year olds when threatened with horrible death and forced to operate in countries they don't know well, where the penalties for getting caught aren't nice, many would simply fall apart, losing your goods and quite possibly leading the authorities back to you.

That means you wouldn't just throw them in at the deep end, you'd try them out on smaller deals.

But guilt or innocence is simply irrelevant in this case.
Its a political decision mediated by a Peruvian judicial process that is by design absurdly slow in order to maximise the extraction of bribes. The UK government has little leverage over Peru and only pays lip service to making sure they have a fair trial unless there's the clearest possible evidence that they've been fitted up.
At least they're white and vaguely attractive which means the UK press will care a bit every so often.
Their MP (of whatever party) will get a jolly to Peru to "check that they're being treated properly" and utter carefully crafted vacuous statements that means when they're finally judged they get some credit if they are released but no tulip if they're found guilty.
Then 5 years from now, they will have some "illness" and be released on humanitarian grounds so that the Peruvian government gets to look both tough on drugs but also humane. This will coincide with a big British firm getting a large contract in Peru to meddle with their water supply.

Can you never manage a short, snappy post?

[eek]

Can you never manage a short, snappy post?

Journalists are paid by the word. You should see what my uncle used to write in a day.

[EternalOptimist]

Journalists are paid by the word. You should see what my uncle used to write in a day.

He reminds me of John Major. The git used to infuriate me

The quick not un-brown fox failed to not jump over the slow lazy dog


grrr

[mudskipper]

Can you never manage a short, snappy post?

Dominic Connor is Gentile?

[minestrone]

[AtW]

[EternalOptimist]

There is so much wrong with this, that I just dont know where to start.

As soon as I have stopped laughing, I might start.