Tanisha Samuel, 20, and Shereen Hardy, 18, were sentenced to 12 months behind bars earlier this week after they admitted the audacious attempt to get more than 2kgs of the drug on to a London-bound plane.The women will serve their sentence at Fort Augusta, Jamaica's only women's prison. It promises to be a tough ordeal for the two friends, according to charity Prisoners Abroad, which has offered to help them.
Thomas Lawson, deputy chief executive of Prisoners Abroad, said: "Fort Augusta is a pretty difficult place. It's an incredibly old colonial fort, it's not particularly modern. The windows don't close particularly well - during the storms rain comes through."There are rats in the place. The food is in reasonable amounts - three meals a day - but the nutritional content can be variable.
"We send money to clients in Fort Augusta so they can supplement their diets at the tuck shop. They are big cells, about 28 people to a cell. There's very little or no privacy."Sangster International Airport officials found the cocaine, thought to have an estimated street value of £175,000, stuffed in black socks and stitched to the underside of the long, dark-haired wigs they were wearing.After their arrests on Sunday, the pair claimed they were offered a combined £4,000 fee to transport the drugs from Jamaica to Gatwick Airport, police said.
They were stopped because they were acting suspiciously, Montego Bay Resident Magistrates' Court was told.The woman were given one-year jail terms after they pleaded guilty to three charges of possession, dealing and export. They were also told to each pay a 250,000 Jamaican dollars fine - about £2,000 - or face a further six months in prison.
Thomas Lawson, deputy chief executive of Prisoners Abroad, said: "Fort Augusta is a pretty difficult place. It's an incredibly old colonial fort, it's not particularly modern. The windows don't close particularly well - during the storms rain comes through."There are rats in the place. The food is in reasonable amounts - three meals a day - but the nutritional content can be variable.
"We send money to clients in Fort Augusta so they can supplement their diets at the tuck shop. They are big cells, about 28 people to a cell. There's very little or no privacy."Sangster International Airport officials found the cocaine, thought to have an estimated street value of £175,000, stuffed in black socks and stitched to the underside of the long, dark-haired wigs they were wearing.After their arrests on Sunday, the pair claimed they were offered a combined £4,000 fee to transport the drugs from Jamaica to Gatwick Airport, police said.
They were stopped because they were acting suspiciously, Montego Bay Resident Magistrates' Court was told.The woman were given one-year jail terms after they pleaded guilty to three charges of possession, dealing and export. They were also told to each pay a 250,000 Jamaican dollars fine - about £2,000 - or face a further six months in prison.
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