Brit mum breaks silence after daughter caught 'smuggling' £3.5m worth of cocaine into US

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A mum has spoken out for the first time as her beautician daughter is facing up to 60 years behind bars in the US for allegedly smuggling cocaine worth £3.5m into the country.Kim Hall, from Middlesbrough, has been accused of collecting two suitcases filled with 43kg of cocaine while in Mexico and taking them to Chicago's O'Hare airport, where she was arrested by Homeland Security, who believe she intentionally tried to smuggle the drugs.The 28-year-old claims she believed she had been carrying cash from real estate deals and did not know the true content of what was inside the cases.

Hall is now being held inside Cook County Jail in Illinois. The slammer, which is one of the largest jails in the US, housing thousands of inmates, once held 1920s gangster Al Capone and serial killer John Wayne Gacy, better known as the Killer Clown, reports the Mirror.

The distraught 58-year-old told the MailOnline: "The truth will come out, we are certain that Kim will be able to tell the real story in time."She and Hall's sister Stephanie are now waiting for any other news and said the incident has been "horrendous" for the family.Hall's friends have shared their fears about her safety in the prison where 18 people died in 2023, according to US outlet Injustice Watch.

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