THE British girl dealing with 60 years in jail in America for allegedly trafficking £15m of cocaine in her vacation suitcases protested her innocence at the moment as she appeared in courtroom.
Kim Corridor, 28, is accused of possessing 43kg of the Class A drug as she made her approach residence from a week-long break in Mexico.
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A decide advised her that the investigation was ongoing as he adjourned the case.
However after the temporary listening to defiant Kim stated: “My place has not modified.
“I’m harmless of those expenses – I didn’t visitors medication.”
The self-employed beautician, of Middlesbrough, walked into courtroom 600 at Chicago’s prison courthouse with dad John, 59, at her facet.
He had flown to America to help her – the primary relative she has seen since she was arrested at Chicago’s O’Hare airport on August 18.
Kim, who has beforehand pleaded not responsible to possession of a managed substance and possession with intent to ship, appeared earlier than Choose Michael B McHale for a two-minute listening to.
Prosecutor Justin Goldfarb advised the courtroom: “There may be ongoing discovery.”
Choose McHale advised Kim: “The case shall be adjourned for additional discovery.”
Kim was arrested on August 18 at Chicago’s O’Hare airport as she was going via safety to catch a connecting flight to London.
She had been provided a free vacation to Cancun by two British males she met on an earlier journey to Portugal.
However whereas she was having fun with the break the pair requested her to convey two suitcases residence.
They advised her the baggage have been stuffed with $250,000 in money and reassured her it was authorized.
She agreed however then had a fallout with the lads who threatened her with a gun and took her telephone and passport off her.
Kim ultimately caught a flight residence however was stopped in Chicago when Homeland Safety officers discovered the medication throughout a random verify.
She advised The Solar this week: “There isn’t any approach that I’d knowingly transport medication in any approach, form or type.
“I am not a nasty particular person. I’ve by no means been in bother in my life and I am not responsible of what they’re accusing me of.
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“I did not knowingly smuggle medication. I’m not a drug trafficker and I’m going to battle to show my innocence with each bone in my physique.
“The 2 guys threatened me, however not simply with phrases.
“They have been aggravated as a result of they thought I used to be attempting to keep away from taking the suitcases.
“One in every of them dragged me up and about by my hair and held a handgun to my head.
“He stated: ‘I will f*cking shoot you.’ It was probably the most horrifying factor I’ve ever skilled in my life.
“This has gone from: ‘Come to Mexico for a vacation’ to being held at gunpoint.
“They held a gun to my head and threatened to shoot me.”
When she was arrested on the airport she suffered a panic assault.
She stated: “I used to be in shock, utterly numb, it was such a weird feeling, like I used to be watching another person in a movie.
“I could not breathe.
“I cried and cried, I used to be pleading with them to let me name my mum and pop.
“I used to be in a daze, considering is that this actually occurring to me?
Her case was adjourned till January.
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