The two girls arrested for attempting to smuggle cocaine into the UK from Accra (Capital of Ghana) are awaiting trial. One girl is from turkey and the other is from nigeria.
The girls are on remand in a Ghana jail. They are provided food and drink from the british embassay and are visited three times a day by the british consulate to ensure they are ok.
The family complain that the girls have had their possessions taken away from them and that they were concerned about their children.
The african newspapers report that the girls had stated that they were offered £3,000 each to smuggle cocaine into the country. The british newspapers report that the girls did not know what was in the laptop cases and are not guilty.
How can the parents of these children even comment after they allowed their children to go - in their mind - to a school trip to france - why did they not check out the details with the school???? - time/ date of departure/ hotel details.. etc
2007-07-20 10:33:40 · 14 answers · asked by Just me 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
SBCALIF: the children were residents of the uk going to college in north london! they weren't children born in ghana.
2007-07-20 11:01:35 · update #1
They should let them go after all the cocaine is mostly used by judges and MPs - so where do they think it all comes from?
In my opinion, carting cocaine around should not be a crime.
2007-07-20 10:39:30 · answer #1 · answered by K. Marx iii 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
The story you have talked about here seems to be one very small example that gives a tiny glimpse into the world of drug trafficking and human bondage. Many people would not believe you if you told them that slavery still exists today, but it does.
Human bondage and drug trafficking often go hand in hand. It is likely that the girls did not know what they were carrying. You said that they were from Nigeria and Turkey - these are relatively poor countries where criminals prey on poor, uneducated families.
Your outrage is aimed at the parents - I think you are wrong about this because you are imagining life there as it is here. That is an assumption that probably could not be borne out especially in this case; the parents many not have access to electricity, a telephone or the internet - meaning no way to "check out the details with the school".
Instead I think you should be angrier at the people who were behind this- and the governments for not cracking down on this type of activity.
2007-07-20 10:46:42 · answer #2 · answered by sbcalif 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm sure i heard that a guy got like 1 year prision sentance for being paid to take drugs into the UK i read it in a magazine somewhere and he knew what he was doing and was over 18 so i don't see how 2 girls under 16 who didn't know what was in the cases should get anything worse if they do i shall be very annyoed (even more than i am now) with the injustice. yea as for the parents in fairness the girls where 16 and you would expect 16yr olds to be able to sort out their own school trip they do have to grow up a little bit at somepoint you can't expect parents to baby their 16yr olds and pack their lunches and find out the timetables e.c.t
2007-07-20 10:51:01 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The girls were just daft, I feel for them and all but if someone offers you a free holiday you ask why and you tell an adult. I hope they get out, but I'll be glad that they'd have learn't a lesson out of it. They are lucky not to have been killed or worse, there are so many things that could have happened to them... it really is shocking about the pure stupidity of the poor old kids.
2007-07-20 13:31:39 · answer #4 · answered by floppity 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My thoughts exactly. I wondered what 16 year olds were doing out of the country on their own in the first place. The parents should take full responsibility. and don't tell me these stupid kids didn't know what they were doing. They took a chance and got caught. I just hope they are allowed to go home and have learned a serious lesson.
2007-07-20 10:43:42 · answer #5 · answered by Curious39 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
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2016-11-10 00:07:00 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, clearly the stupid girls are as guilty as sin and should serve their time. It is a sad reflection of the times though that any parent can be paying so little attention to their children that they can fly to a foreign country without their parents knowing exactly where they are.
2007-07-20 10:41:53 · answer #7 · answered by Forbidden 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Anybody that takes drugs into those countries deserves all they get. Who in their right minds would accept bags off somebody they didn't know. What on earth were 16 year olds doing traipsing the world by themselves anyway.
2007-07-20 10:37:05 · answer #8 · answered by tucksie 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Blaming the parents is a huge reach and a disservice to them. I'm sure the parents knew all of those things you accuse them of not knowing (without any evidence). Sounds like these kids need some jail time. Smuggling is a huge problem.
2007-07-20 10:43:41 · answer #9 · answered by davidmi711 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It sounds like they were set up by the Ghana goverment for money,this is not the frist time this has happen
2007-07-20 10:41:05 · answer #10 · answered by bigdogrex 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋