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Passport to Hell

Passport to Hell

How I Survived Sadistic Prison Guards and Hardened Criminals in Spain's Toughest Prisons

by Terry Daniels
Paperback
Publication Date: 07/01/2013

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'Que es esto? Que es esto? Es cocaina!' I couldn't speak a word of Spanish but I understood the word 'cocaina' and knew that I was in a lot of trouble. I should have been paralysed with fear but it didn't seem real. I was only twenty-three. In 1997, English holidaymaker Terry Daniels was wrongfully accused of smuggling a million pounds worth of cocaine from Brazil to Spain. Although she didn't know it then, her companion had been paid by a judge and two police officers to transport the class A drugs. Charged with drug trafficking, she was eventually granted bail but suffered a near-fatal brain haemorrhage. Once she recovered, the Spanish authorities granted her the right to return to the UK. She assumed that her ordeal was over, but it had only just begun... Five years after her arrest, Terry moved to Northern Ireland where, after giving a friend a spare key to her house, she awoke one morning to the anti-terrorist police breaking down her door. Firearms and a pipe bomb were discovered in a cupboard. Terry was arrested and although she was found not guilty, the Spanish authorities requested that she return to Spain. In 2005 she was sentenced to ten years in a maximum-security Spanish prison. She repeatedly pleaded her innocence and was eventually granted a royal pardon and released in January 2009. This is the hard-hitting account of her fight for justice, a page-turning memoir of an ordinary woman who survived and triumphed over remarkable misfortune. SELLING POINTS: Reminiscent of Forget You Had A Daughter, this is a shocking true crime story of being imprisoned abroad During her time inside, Terry's story was featured in The Mirror, The Sun, the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph. She appeared on every major news programme and was mentioned by name in the House of Lords Terry's extradition was a landmark case resulting in changes to the law regarding interpretation and translation and access to documents
ISBN:
9781849533447
9781849533447
Category:
True crime
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
07-01-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Summersdale Publishers
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
320
Dimensions (mm):
199x130x22mm
Weight:
0.24kg

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