A previous Miss England model is dealing with 20 years in a Mexican jail after being apprehended on suspicion of smuggling ₤250,000 of ketamine.
Jennifer Young was presumably discovered to have 13.080 kg of the drug concealed in packages and bottles in an incorrect bottom in her luggage throughout a flight from Amsterdam to Cancun in 2015.
A tweet from the Mexican cops at the time read: ‘In the arrivals of Cancun International Airport, National Guards and airport personnel found several packets and packages that appeared to be cocaine hidden in a hidden layer of a bag belonging to foreign national.’
Young, a Miss Derby participant when she was 17, invested months in an overcrowded prison in Cancun prior to being moved to a jail near Mexico City in February.
The 33- year-old style design kept her household in the dark about her predicament for over 6 months, informing her sad mom Angela she was merely circumnavigating the nation.
However, she lastly found out the reality simply 5 weeks earlier, when her only child stopped working to telephone her to want her a pleased birthday.
Speaking to MailOnline, Angela stated: ‘I’ m still in shock. I understood Jenny remained in Mexico however I believed she was taking a trip. I have actually only simply discovered Jenny remains in jail.
‘My birthday is in March and wherever in the world Jenny is she calls me. But she didn’ t contact us and I began to stress.
‘Then I got a message from her friend. I asked him where she was. After a lot of messages, he finally told me that she was in jail. I couldn’ t think it.
Young, who was born in Germany to a British mom and German dad, invested much of her life working abroad as a design and a tourist guide, after leaving her home town of Derby aged 19.
Angela included: ‘The British consulate went to see her last Wednesday. She is fine now she has a cell to herself. It’ s better than the other location.
‘Prisoners are enabled to have sees from relative. Relatives generate food and other things.
‘Jenny states she gets 3 meals a day however they are really little parts. She is waiting on the attorney to see her.
‘She had been calling me before, but didn’ t state she remained in problem.
‘She has been phoning me from the jail. She only gets five minutes and I don’ t understand who is eavesdroping, so she hasn’t spoken about what occurred, it resembles, ‘I love you, speak to you soon’.
Young deals with a sentence of as much as 20 years if she is founded guilty of drug smuggling– among the most major criminal activities in Mexico.
A Foreign Office spokesperson last night verified the British Consul in Mexico is offering support to a British nationwide in Cancun and her household in the UK.
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