Post date: Dec 17, 2013 2:6:45 PM
British confessed drug mules Michaella McCollum Connolly and Melissa Reid are due to be sentenced on Tuesday at a closed Lima court.
LIMA, PERU (FILE) (POLICE HANDOUT) - Two British women who have pleaded guilty to drug charges in Peru were due to be sentenced on Tuesday (December 17) at a court in the country's capital, Lima.
Drug mules Michaella McCollum Connolly and Melissa Reid are facing potential jail terms of 15 years. The pair had agreed to plead guilty to smuggling £1.5m of cocaine with the prospect of reduced sentencing to six years and eight months.The verdicts were to be handed down in a closed court.
The women were arrested at Lima airport on August 6 on their way to Spain carrying 24 pounds of cocaine concealed inside food packets.