Kim Hall was caught at Chicago’s O’Hare airport where she was due to get her connecting flight home to Manchester
A British beautician is reportedly facing up to 60 years behind bars in the United States after allegedly smuggling £3.5m worth of cocaine in her suitcases from Mexico.
But Ms Hall claims two men forced her to smuggle the drugs after offering her a free trip to Cancun and then threatening her once she arrived. Her family back home in the UK say “the only thing she's guilty of is being stupid and being naïve”.Her dad John, 59, said she had met the men, who claimed they were property developers, on an earlier trip to Portugal. He says they invited her to stay with them and then offered her a free holiday in Mexico.
John told The Sun: “She's not a drug smuggler. She was told that it would be money she was carrying. They got her phone and threatened her family and that’s why she did it. She'd been to Portugal with a friend and met people over there who contacted her when she was back saying they were into real estate in Mexico and she could go for a free holiday.
Ms Hall, from Middlesbrough, was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance and possession with intent to deliver following her arrest in August.
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