Police are now investigating 22-year-old Australian Cassie Sainsbury’s claims she was set up by a mystery man named Angelo, following their seizure of CCTV footage showing her meeting a man in the lobby of her hotel room, 7 News reports.
The fitness trainer and volunteer firefighter is facing 25 years in a Colombian prison after being caught with 5.8kg of cocaine in her suitcase seconds before boarding her flight home to Australia.
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Since her arrest, Sainsbury has maintained that she was set up by a man she had only just met. She says he gave her the 18 plastic-wrapped packages containing the cocaine, which she was led to believe were headphones.
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The owner of the hotel where Cassie was staying in Colombia, Ingrid Hernandez, confirmed to AAP that police obtained the CCTV footage from the premise’s archives.
Sainsbury is currently sharing a cell with around 250 other women in one of the most notorious prisons in Colombia.