Ghana smugglers unsurprisingly found guilty

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Throughout the case, the girls' families insisted they knew nothing about the drugs and had been set up by traffickers.

In a statement read outside the court by Sabine Zanker, of the group Fair Trials International, they said they were "deeply disturbed with the verdict delivered this morning".

"Yasemin and Yatunde are two extremely vulnerable young girls whose naivety was ruthlessly exploited by the men who lured them to Ghana and led them to this terrible fate," the statement said.

In July, Yasemin told Channel 4 News from prison: "There were basically two boys over here who gave us two bags. We never thought anything bad was inside ... they told us to go to the UK and drop it off to some boy at the airport.

"It was basically like a set-up. They didn't tell us nothing, we didn't think nothing, because basically we are innocent. We don't know nothing about this drugs and stuff, we don't know nothing."

So the defence was ... we were offered cash and free return flights to go to Ghana for the weekend and bring back a package each. But we had NO IDEA that we might be smuggling something, we thought that it was just cos they didn't want the packages to get lost in the post strike or lost by TNT.

Posted By: Old Git on November 21st 2007 at 13:46:47

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