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A likely story from drug charge girls

Jul 20 2007

SORRY, but I don't believe the yarn spun by those two 16-year-old British students languishing in an Accra jail.

They are accused of attempting to smuggle £3 million worth of cocaine from Ghana and are now telling all who will listen that they were duped.

"Two boys gave us bags and told us to get them to Britain and drop them off to a boy at the airport. It was a set-up. They didn't tell us nothing and we didn't think nothing." That story doesn't hold water.

Sixteen-year-olds sufficiently cunning to have told their parents they were on a school trip to France would have known exactly what they were doing in return for air fares, a holiday and hotel accommodation in Ghana.

Keep them banged up for a while to frighten them silly and to warn off similarly cash-greedy kids.

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