
Sainsbury faces trial after plea bargain rejected
Australian drug mule Cassie Sainsbury will stand trial for trying to smuggling nearly six kilograms of cocaine out of Colombia after a judge rejected a plea deal.
Australian drug mule Cassie Sainsbury will stand trial for trying to smuggling nearly six kilograms of cocaine out of Colombia after a judge rejected a plea deal.
Cassie Sainsbury’s mother and sister have arrived in Adelaide, refusing to comment after visiting the accused drug mule in a Colombian prison.
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The fiance of accused drug mule Cassandra Sainsbury says he has no doubt the 22-year-old is innocent.
Cassandra Sainsbury is living in “harsh”, “undignifying” conditions in the confines of Colombia’s largest, heavily overpopulated women’s prison while she awaits her trial.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration may have been responsible for the tip off that led to Cassie Sainsbury’s arrest for alleged drug trafficking in Colombia.
Colombian police believe an Adelaide woman arrested for allegedly having an estimated $US1 million worth of cocaine in her luggage could have been working as a drug mule.