Miss Hendy should have been starting the second year of an art course at Swindon College Swindon College is a higher education College in Swindon, England. It has recently had a £17m brand new campus at North Star, with state-of-the-art facilities. 
Swindon College has a range of HNC/Ds and Foundation Degrees, through to BA (Hons) courses and a postgraduate programme. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified"
meantime, meanwhile she had been working part-time at a Super-drug store and was offered a return air ticket to Jamaica by Miss Wood-man, the manager. Mr Paul had apparently pulled out of the ten-day trip because of visa problems.
The women stayed at a guest house in Jamaica and visited friends and family of Mr Paul.
The women say they admitted drug smuggling before local magistrates on the advice of a court-appointed lawyer. Their sentence was the maximum for a first offence.
At the tough all-women prison of Fort Augustus Fort Augustus (Ordnance Survey grid reference NH379090) is a settlement in the Scottish Highlands, at the south west end of Loch Ness. The village has a population of around 646 (2001) [1]. The village is heavily reliant on tourism ,they will have to perform 'daily household chores' - not as demanding as breaking rocks, but still regarded as hard labour.
A British Customs source said: 'It will be a pretty hellish experience everything from the toilet facilities to the type of food served.' Miss Hendy, who had never been abroad without her family before, was allowed to phone them before the case. She told them: 'I think I've been set up.' Later she called again.
Mrs Hendy, a 47-year-old export manager from Longwell Green, Bristol, said: 'She was in a terrible state and said, "I have been jailed for 18 months. I love you Mum".' Mrs Hendy, whose husband John, 48, is a lorry driver, added: 'We phoned the consulate to see if they could do anything. But no one British turned up to the case. They have both been left high and dry.'
The Foreign Office said the British consul had tried to see the women in court, but by the time he got there they had been dealt with.
Last night Miss Hendy's boyfriend John Crouch, 27, who runs a computer shop in Bristol, said: 'Drug smuggling is the last thing Joanne would do. She is a very homely girl, not at all worldly wise.' But Miss Woodman's father Terry Moss, of Hanham, said: 'They have been proved guilty and should stay in jail.
'Even if they were just given a package and were not aware what was in it, we all know when you go abroad you must be on your guard.'
