‘Work trip’ before arrest
years back to Australia. However, should she fight the charge it would take at least two years to have the matter heard and may lead to a 20year sentence.
“I’m thinking that Cassandra was used as a ‘mule’ ... the police say ‘I’m sorry, this is drugs ... this is your baggage ... you are guilty’,” he said.
“(It is) very sad, very sad she is crying permanently.”
The mystery deepened yesterday as it was revealed she ... 2018 COMMONWEALTH GAMES HOST CITY had crisscrossed the world for the past six months on a “work trip”.
Just days before she was picked up on a tip from the US Drug Enforcement Agency as she tried to leave Bogota airport, the 22-year-old posted on social media in the United States at the tail end of a jaunt that took her to China, Canada and Vanuatu.
“Can’t complain about an all expenses paid work trip which is mainly holiday and very little work,” she wrote on Instagram.
Australian and British police are now helping to investigate whether she is part of an international drug network.
Her legal team maintains she was not aware she was carrying 18 packages containing more than 6kg of cocaine, saying she thought the packages were headphones she’d bought at a good price from a new male friend in Bogota.
While Cassie was arrested three weeks ago, her ordeal only became public last week when her sister created a fundraising web page.
Her family and fiance Scotty Broadbridge have offered different reasons for Cassie’s presence in Colombia, with sister Khala explaining she was promoting her personal training business.
Broadbridge said she hadn’t worked as a personal trainer for six months and was working for a cleaning company.