Drug-smuggling suspects taunted via Facebook

Internet trolls have added to the distress of the family of Irish drug mule Michaella McCollum-Connolly by spouting abuse on a Facebook page set up to support her.

Drug-smuggling suspects taunted via Facebook

Ms McCollum-Connolly, 20, from Co Tyrone and her friend, Melissa Reid, 20, from Scotland, are both detained in the Peruvian capital Lima after being caught trying to leave the country with an estimated €1.7m worth of cocaine.

The pair, who had been working in nightclubs in Ibiza, say were forced to make the trip by a Spanish drugs gang who threatened them at gunpoint.

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