’An ordinary girl with aspirations’ Fiance hits back at claims accused drug mule was in debt
Pastor women’s jail to one in Australia.
New light has been shed on how Sainsbury spent her nine days in Bogota, with the manager of the hotel where she stayed saying she stood out because she arrived without a reservation and only paid for her accommodation two days at a time.
“She was a very quiet person. And she is very young. She’s like a girl. Very young,” said Ingrid Hernandez.
“It claimed my attention that she was so young and on her own. If you visit a country like Colombia, you should spend a night drinking in a bar, or going to a restaurant and eat delicious food.
“She was alone most of the time in her room. I remember once she went and brought McDonalds back to eat.”
Ms Hernandez said Sainsbury’s only visitor was a welldressed Colombian man, understood to be the mysterious Angelo, who is accused of tricking Sainsbury into packing drugs in her suitcase in the mistaken belief the packages contained headphones.
Sainsbury has told her lawyers she doesn’t know the surname of Angelo, a local she met after arriving in Bogota on April 3 at the tail end of a six-month world trip.
Mr Herran said it was expected negotiations with the Australian consulate would be protracted and said he considered they had a 50-50 chance of success.