Cassie Sainsbury is finally ready to reveal the cold hard truth about the path that led her to trying to smuggle drugs out of Colombia. Now out of jail, Adelaide-born Cassie is light-years away from the scared and lonely 22-year-old who was arrested at Bogota Airport for stashing 5.8kg of cocaine inside boxes of headphones.
She’s now engaged to her prison lover Joli Pico and exudes a confidence that is a result of nearly three years of self-reflection behind bars. Speaking to WHO, Sainsbury says she has had a lot of time to think about her mistakes – and has made a very blunt admission. “People think I either have to be so stupid it’s not funny to not have figured it out, or I didn’t care. That’s the two camps people are in: I either didn’t care or I’m too stupid,” she says.
“But when you look at all the evidence, everything that got me to that moment, it wasn’t something where I just decided to go to Colombia and smuggle drugs. It was never like that.
“I was definitely way too trusting. It was something that was abused in prison. Everyone knew I was too trusting and that I’d believe everything I was told. That never turned out well for me.”
This story is from the May 11, 2020 edition of WHO.
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