This series tells the true stories that would be any traveller’s worst nightmare - when a holiday in paradise becomes a journey into hell that ends up in prison abroad. Through graphic dramatic reconstruction, each film tells the story of someone who’s been arrested and thrown into a foreign prison. It could be for smuggling drugs, falling foul of local corrupt policemen or for being duped into carrying illegal goods through customs. In all cases, the films follow the sinking sense of horror from the build up to the moment of arrest, their journey through an incomprehensible legal process, the coming to terms with the details of life in a hellhole jail, and the devastating fall out with their family and friends.
When 45-year-old yachtsman Donald MacNeil had a call from two acquaintances offering him a month's freelance teaching in the Mediterranean he couldn't believe his luck. But as the month drew to an end, Donald's suspicions that this trip was not all that it seemed became terrifyingly real. Threatening that there was nowhere to hide should he turn on them, Donald was given a new course - Venezuela, to collect £30 million pounds worth of cocaine. Donald's good fortune was about to become a nightmare that would change his life forever.
When Mark Knowles ran into trouble in Taiwan, he thought his only way out was to smuggle cocaine. After swallowing half a kilo inside condoms, he was just hours from death.
This is the well-known story of Sandra Gregory, author of 'Forget you have a daughter'. At 25, Sandra left a happy middle class upbringing to go on holiday to Thailand for a few months. When Sandra fell ill she found herself without any money - not even enough fare for the flight home. Then she met Robert Locke who seemed to offer her a way out of her predicament. Robert offered to pay her £1000 plus a flight to Tokyo if she would smuggle into Japan his personal heroin stash...
Lucy Baker and Scott Campbell were working little and playing hard in Ibiza for the summer season. Out of luck and out of money, the offer of the holiday of a lifetime and a healthy reward seemed just too good to be true… All they had to do was bring back a little cannabis into Amsterdam.
Drama-documentary series telling the gripping real-life stories of travellers who find themselves incarcerated overseas. American martial-arts teacher and bike enthusiast Glen Heggstad recounts his experience of being kidnapped by rebels in Colombia. Forced to make long marches through the jungle and subjected to constant interrogations, Glen hoped to secure his release by claiming he was seriously ill.
Drama-documentary series telling the gripping real-life stories of young travellers who find themselves incarcerated overseas. Piers Hernu's thirst for adventure landed him in a Nepalese jail for gold smuggling. After being convinced to carry a gold-filled waistcoat through customs, Piers found himself in deep trouble when his illegal load was found by a metal detector. Facing four years in jail, Piers launched a campaign to convince the King of Nepal to pardon him.
Drama-documentary series telling the gripping real-life stories of young travellers who find themselves incarcerated overseas. This programme focuses on two American teenagers who were sentenced to ten years in a Peruvian prison after being caught attempting to smuggle cocaine back into the United States.
Drama-doc series telling the gripping real-life stories of young travellers who find themselves incarcerated overseas. This program tells the cautionary tale of Leicester teenagers Jim and Paul, who ended up in a Venezuelan prison for smuggling drugs. They spent four and a half years in a living nightmare before seizing the opportunity to escape.
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