I was a single parent and tried to smuggle drugs to Australia because we needed the money. As told to Svetlana Stankovic
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I live in Canada. I’m 56 years old. I have four children and I’m a grandmother of four. I raised my children by myself. Before I went to jail I was working as a teacher.
I went to prison for attempting to smuggle 1kg of cocaine into Australia. I’d never done anything like this before but my daughter was going to college and she needed money for her career. So I did it, and I got caught at the airport in Sydney. That was on 4 September 2011. I was in prison for three years.
