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Michaella McCollum: Why I smuggled cocaine into Peru

Michaella McCollum talks to Emma Barnett about her time in jail in Peru for smuggling cocaine.

Michaella McCollum (pictured, left) was just 20, when she was caught with 11 kilos of cocaine at the airport in Peru in 2013. Along with her Scottish accomplice, Melissa Reid, she spent almost three years behind bars there, before she was allowed to return home to Northern Ireland in 2016. She鈥檚 been speaking to Emma Barnett.

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