An Irishwoman being held in Peru suspected of smuggling 1.5 million euro worth of cocaine says she was threatened at gunpoint by druglords.
Michaela McCollum from Tyrone and Melissa Reid from Scotland were arrested last week after being stopped at Lima Airport.
Peruvian police say the 20 and 19 year olds were carrying almost 6 kilos of cocaine in their suitcases.
The pair had been working in Ibiza for the summer.
Christopher Bucktin is US editor of the Mirror newspaper.
He met with the pair in Lima where they told him they were approached by a man in Ibiza - who delivered them to a Latin American drugs cartel;
