After serving a three-year prison sentence in a hard-core South American jail, convicted drug-smuggler Michaella McCollum has this evening left Peru and returned to Europe.
The 23-year-old left Lima on Friday evening and landed in Dublin via London in the last year.
Michaella McCollum had nothing to say to reporters when she landed back. #PeruTwo pic.twitter.com/ZApWhpzQCp
— Sean Defoe (@SeanDefoe) August 13, 2016
Waiting media were on site to ask Michaella questions about her release, but the Northern Irish woman had no comment to make.
Senior Newstalk reporter Sean Defoe captured the moment she walked from the terminal on Twitter.
Michaella McCollum lands back at Dublin Airport three years after being convicted of drugs smuggling in Peru pic.twitter.com/VXjugEfJlC
— Sean Defoe (@SeanDefoe) August 13, 2016
Along with UK-national Melissa Reid, McCollum was arrested in August 2013 at Lima Airport with 11kg of cocaine hidden in her luggage disguised as food packets.
BREAKING: Convicted drugs smuggler Michaella McCollum has arrived back in Ireland #PeruTwo pic.twitter.com/8fzuNK9eel
— Sean Defoe (@SeanDefoe) August 13, 2016
The Irish passport-holder was released on parole in March this year after serving less than half her six-year, eight-month sentence.
Reid arrived back to her native Scotland in June.
In a controversial interview with Irish national broadcaster RTE shortly after her release, Michaella said the decision to transport drugs from Peru back to Europe was a "moment of madness".
