In a brand-new tell-all interview, “Cocaine Cassie” Sainsbury acknowledged knowing the drugs’ composition and confessed to transporting cocaine out of Colombia on purpose.
When Sainsbury boarded a flight from Bogota to London in April 2017, the airline discovered 5.8kg of cocaine concealed in 18 headphone boxes within her suitcase.
The drug mule was freed early in April 2020 after serving just six months of her initial six-year sentence in Bogota’s renowned El Buen Pastor female jail.
The drug mule claimed to be innocent in several interviews while in custody and out on bond in South America, but she ultimately admitted her guilt in one with 7News Spotlight.
The smuggler admitted, as seen in the program’s trailer, that she knew exactly how much cocaine was in her bag: “I knew what was in it.” The programme is scheduled to premiere tonight.
Sainsbury told the TV station that she was terrified for her life and worried about her family because of her involvement in a “global network providing drugs to Aussie suburbs.”
Details of a massive organised crime enterprise involving Sainsbury, who ended up doing more than two years in prison for her crimes, will also be revealed on 7News Spotlight.
The former fitness instructor insisted that the large amount of narcotics discovered on her person were not what she was carrying but rather documentation.
The convicted smuggler then asserted that she had evidence to support her innocence, but it was locked away on a phone whose PIN she couldn’t recall.
She also claimed that her family’s lives had been in danger and that she had been forced into smuggling cocaine.
Asked by reporter Liam Bartlett whether she thought what she was doing was dodgy, she conceded that it had crossed her mind.
She told him in the September 2017 interview: “It was a point where I was just about to accept a job but I had outstanding bills.
“I suppose I took the risk. Now I’m here. But it’s a lesson learned – definitely.”
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