Irish drugs mule ‘lucky not to have got 20 years in jail’

Irish drugs mule Michaella McCollum was lucky she wasn’t put behind bars for 20 years, according to the Peru’s former drug czar.

A documentary is set to detail how the 20-year-old and fellow drugs mule Melissa Reid willingly agreed to smuggle a suitcase full of cocaine out of Peru to Spain.

The pair made headlines around the world when they were caught with 11kg of cocaine in Lima International Airport last summer and were later sentenced to six years and eight months behind bars when they finally came clean to police.