Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum
Connolly admitted trying to board a flight from Lima to Spain on August 6
knowing they had 24lb of the class-A drug in their suitcases
The maximum sentence
they can receive is six years and eight months - but if they had pleaded
not guilty and been convicted, they could have faced as much as 15
years in a Peruvian prison.
The
women will be eligible for parole within three years, allowing them to
return home, while it has also been suggested that they could be
transferred to Britain to serve part of their sentences.
Melissa Reid, right, and Michaella McCollum are escorted from a truck by
police at Sarita Colonia prison ahead of their court appearance
The pair were handcuffed as they were taken from Virgen de Fatima Prison
on the outskirts of the capital, to a court in the city centre wearing
their own clothes
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