Irish journalist serving drug-trafficking sentence in desperate plea from South American jail cell

AN IRISH-BORN journalist serving an eight-year sentence in a South American jail for drug trafficking says she’s completely innocent and desperately needs to get home.

Dublin-born Roisín Zoe Savage yesterday made a desperate plea from inside her prison cell to be brought home to be with her seriously ill mother.

The 33-year-old says she was duped into carrying drugs through an airport by a man she’d travelled to Ecuador with to help resolve his visa problems. He had lived close to her, her husband and their two children in London but had been returned home to South America.