Cocaine arrest girls 'tricked into carrying drugs to UK'
TWO British girls arrested in Ghana for allegedly carrying cocaine worth £300,000 have claimed they were set up to take drugs to the UK.
The 16-year-olds have been "provisionally charged" after they were arrested on July 2 at Accra airport as they attempted to board a British Airways flight to London.
Police identified the two as Yasemin Vatansever, the London-born daughter of Cypriot parents, and Yatunde Diya, a British citizen of Nigerian descent.
Last night, Yasemin spoke by telephone from prison in Accra to say they were tricked into carrying drugs.
She claimed: "There were basically two boys over here who gave us two bags, and told us to bring it. (They said that) it was an empty bag.
"We never thought anything bad was inside . . . and they told us to go to the UK and drop it off to some boy . . . at the airport."
The interview followed reports that they were recruited in London and may have been "pressurised" into carrying the drugs.
Justice campaign group Fair Trials Abroad said it intended to take a keen interest in the case.
The girls could reportedly receive jail terms of ten years or longer.
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