'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
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Summersdale Publishers
ISBN-13
9781849533447
eBay Product ID (ePID)
138869335
Product Key Features
Author
Terry Daniels
Publication Name
Passport to Hell: How I Survived Sadistic Prison Guards and Hardened Criminals in Spain's Toughest Prisons
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Criminology
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
199mm
Item Width
130mm
Item Weight
240g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Terry Daniels
Topic
True Crime, Memorials
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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