A BRITISH student has been given 18 months' hard labour in a Caribbean jail for drug smuggling.
Joanne Hendy, 20, and her friend Suzanne Woodman, 36, were caught with cocaine worth [pounds sterling]140,000 in the soles of training shoes they were bringing home.
Miss Hendy claims they were simply naive holidaymakers duped by gangsters.
She says a woman who befriended them gave them the boxed shoes as a parting gift A parting gift or farewell gift is a parting tradition, a gift given during parting. There are various traditions which involve parting gifts.
A parting gift is a major rule in xenia, the Ancient Greek concept of hospitality. .
Last night, her parents launched a campaign to get her freed after she made a desperate phone call home.
'This was going to be the trip of a lifetime for her,' said her mother Julie, who plans to fly out to see her daughter and try to clear her name 'but it has turned into a nightmare.
' Meanwhile detectives in Bristol, where the two women live, were urgently trying to trace Miss Woodman's boyfriend Fabian Paul, who has apparently disappeared from his home in the Hanham area.Next to part 2
