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HIGH: Confessions of an Ibiza drug mule. BBC

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Coconutscrub · 15/07/2021 12:19

Has anyone seen this? I was hooked - the whole story is fascinating!

“ In 2013, Michaella McCollum from Northern Ireland and Melissa Reid from Scotland were caught at the Jorge Chavez International Airport in Peru trying to smuggle £1.5 million of cocaine into Spain. The pair, also known as the `Peru Two,' were sentenced to almost seven years in one of the most notorious prisons in the world. The series provides a first-hand account from Michaella, a former club hostess in the Spanish nightlife, as she traces her journey from arriving in the foreign country for her first holiday to her downward spiral into the illicit world of drugs and excess.”

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EspressoDoubleShot · 24/07/2021 19:23

Your example isn’t comparable though, a rudimentary knowledge of geography is not comparable to being in Ibiza and flying to the mainland to do a drug run for your boyfriend. She knew she was doing a drug run, and met up with her co-accused in the airport to catch connecting flight to Peru

LeanneBrownsLonelyBraincell · 27/07/2021 21:00

I'm watching it now.

Silly little bitch, zero sympathy for her. My sympathy rests with her family.

hellosally · 06/08/2021 08:24

wow, I cant belive the nastiness going to this young woman. yes she was stupid and/or conniving and saw a quick buck, we dont know. but she is also very smart the way she changed her life around. she isnt saying she's a good person and is going to be a charity worker, just teling her story. maybe because she is very pretty the haters are on her.

mibbelucieachwell · 06/08/2021 13:42

I wonder how she feels about the documentary. If she feels she was presented fairly. Maybe she spoke more about the poverty that led the Peruvian women into agreeing to be drug mules and it was edited out for all we know.

We're all just going by the impression she gave.

I don't have no sympathy for her. It's more that I got the impression she hadn't necessarily learnt much that would further her ethical development. She's clearly got an impressive ability to survive in extremely difficult situations.

As for hating on an attractive woman, to be very honest, seeing as an accusation of jealousy has been made, I personally don't find her more than averagely attractive. She looks like she's had lip fillers and Botox which I don't find attractive.

One of the men in the film said he felt that pretty girls traded on their attractiveness in Ibiza. Perhaps being very attractive can be a mixed blessing.

She spent a lot of time saying how young she was and from such a tiny place, presumably to partially excuse her action. I would have more sympathy for her if she admitted that she had got carried away with the excitement or with the flattering attention of an older man.

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