'I'm not a bad person': Brit, 28, arrested in USA before Manchester Airport flight home breaks silence
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA British woman who faces 60 years in a US jail for 'drug smuggling' has broken her silence - insisting she is innocent and 'not a bad person'.
Kim Hall had travelled from Mexico to Chicago’s O’Hare airport where she was due to get on her connecting flight home to Manchester.
But Homeland Security investigators detained the beautician, from Middlesborough, after they reportedly discovered 43kg of cocaine - worth millions of pounds - packed in two suitcases on August 18.
She now faces 60 years in jail and is due to appear at a US court today, the Mirror reports. Ahead of her court appearance, the 28-year-old spoke to the Sun and said she would 'fight with every bone in her body to prove her innocence'. READ NEXT: Man jailed after security officer spotted him at shopping centre Ms Hall claimed she agreed to bring two suitcases home for a pair of British men under the belief the bags contained only cash.
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