British girls who lived in Ibiza are arrested in Peru 'after trying to board flight to Madrid with £1.5million of cocaine in their luggage'

 

Two British girls have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of trying to smuggle £1 million worth of cocaine out of the country.
Michaella McCollum Connolly, 20, and Melissa Reid, 19, were arrested at Lima airport as they checked in for a flight to Spain. 

Police said they found more than 25lb of the Class A drug in the  girls’ suitcases.

Held: British girls Melissa Reid, left, and Michaella McCollum Connolly,  right, have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of trying to smuggle £1 million worth of cocaine out of the country

Both girls have been living on the Mediterranean island of Ibiza over the past month and their families had no idea they had travelled to South America.
The distraught parents of Melissa, William and Debra Reid, speaking at their family home in Lenzie, near Glasgow, expressed their ‘shock’ at learning of their daughter’s arrest. Fighting back tears, Mrs Reid said: ‘She met the other girl out in Ibiza. I know that, but I don’t know anything else about her. As far as we knew, Melissa was in Ibiza. That is where she has been.’ In a statement, local police said: ‘Police searched the women’s luggage. They found 18 packets of  food products with cocaine  which weighed 5.78kg in Melissa Reid’s suitcases.
‘Sixteen packets of food products with cocaine weighing 5.81kg were found in Michaella McCollum  Connolly’s suitcases.’