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yes, i know, innocent until proven and so forth and one hopes if she is innocent that she is found so, BUT... here is a report for those not familiar - young blond aussie caught with a bag full of cocaine that says she was tricked... http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/adelaide-woman-cassandra-sainsbury-charged-over-5kg-cocaine-drug-bust-in-colombia/news-story/1219c8be71b3f7e76d5e07fabb711427 i'm immediately suspicious of all the claims of innocence one hears - it was an extraordinary puzzle to me why so many people were convinced schapelle corby was innocent - but perhaps someone can explain this one to me. young girl, meets nice guy in columbia. wants to buy headphones. he says he can get a good deal if she buys 16 to 18 (what the hell does she need 18 pairs of headphones for? - apparently going to give them as gifts to her wedding guests. seriously?). okay, so he provides her with 18 wrapped parcels which she shoves in her luggage. does not even bother to look at a single set? let's leave aside the fact that i'm really not sure how on earth anyone could think that a parcel with headphones feels the same as a parcel with cocaine, can anyone explain why a drug dealer from columbia would give away 5 kilos of coke for the price of a few dodgy headphones? was there a plan to sneak into australia and pinch her bag at the other end, despite all the endless possibilities of that going wrong - if she had eventually checked a parcel, wanted to try a set of headphones, repacked into another bag, been pinched by customs this end? what am i missing? she is really goiong to have to explain that and good luck. if this is the defence, may i suggest she learn spanish real quick. and from the photo, i suspect she'll have no trouble making lots of new friends.