Headphones are not particularly cheap in Colombia. They’re also not very heavy.
Not as heavy as almost 6kg of cocaine, anyway.
And really, a wedding party gift? Wouldn’t you be spewing if THAT was your thank you for spending the day in pink polyester?
Hey, have you checked out that travel itinerary? There’s no way her story stacks up, she couldn’t possibly have fitted in stops in Hong Kong and London as well as South America and still made it back to be welcomed by her family on Good Friday, right?
These are the conversations that are all around you this week as we collectively pass judgement on Cassie Sainsbury, the young Adelaide woman detained on cocaine smuggling charges in Bogota, South America.
She's so guilty, we're all saying. Have you seen the photos? She's got a nose ring. And a tattoo (it says, Harry Potter fans, 'I do solemnly swear that I am up to no good').
What's a 22-year-old personal trainer/industrial cleaner/working holiday maker doing on a world tour that takes in China, LA and South America? Like, seriously.
When it comes to bad girls, we're all armchair experts.
Let's blame our current obsession with all things true crime. Listen to enough podcasts and watch enough Making A Murderer and you can definitely pick a criminal out of a tabloid line-up.
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I don't believe for a second she had the money to be able to afford all the air tickets let alone travel half way around the world. She was looking for adventure, then naively and very stupidly took a giant risk, probably accepted all travel expenses paid for while agreeing to be a drug mule. Perhaps her young cocky self was convinced that if there is a possibility of being questioned if she puts on a pretty face and a smile at check in "everything will be ok." Maybe
What I find curious is that when she was caught she didn't seem too surprised, (personally I would probably collapse to the ground, would need sedatives and would be wailing hysterically, probably inconsolable especially if I knew I didn't commit the crime), she seemed remarkably unnerved, maybe a little peeved from her expression where she is pictured with the cocaine. Who in the right mind after being caught with 6kg of cocaine and thrown in jail for who knows how long manages pose and smile for the camera in their cell? That aside giggling, laughing and carrying on while waiving a sign telling everyone you should be freed? really? c'mon.....
Reality will hit once her sentence is read out at the enormity of a very real and very serious crime she chose to be part of.
If she pleads not guilty will she be charged with perjury??