DRUGS mule Melissa Reid could find out when she will return to the UK in the next few days as her appeal to be expelled from Peru is considered by a judge.
The 22-year-old, jailed for cocaine smuggling in 2013, has been seeking to serve the remainder of her six-year sentence closer to home.
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Reid, from Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire, and Michaella McCollum, from Dungannon, Co Tyrone, were imprisoned in 2013 for six years and eight months after admitting trying to smuggle cocaine worth £1.5 million from Peru to Spain.
After serving a third of her sentence, Reid has applied to return to Scotland under what has been referred to as an “expulsion programme”. A spokeswoman for the British embassy in Lima said on Tuesday Reid had been “granted expulsion back to the UK” and would be returning “very soon”, but refused to comment further.
However, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has said “no decision” had yet been reached, with a judge still to rule on the case.
A spokeswoman said: “We continue to provide assistance to Melissa Reid and remain in contact with her family and local authorities. We are still waiting to hear a decision from the judge.”
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