Judge says he needs more time to consider legality of Adelaide woman’s deal to serve just six years instead of at least 20 over cocaine smuggling chargesAdelaide woman Cassie Sainsbury’s plea bargain with her prosecutors has been suspended by a Colombian judge and the hearing set for another date. Sainsbury had told the Colombian court she feared her family would be killed if she refused to smuggle cocaine for a drug ring. There was a lot of “complexity in the development of this plea bargain” and he wanted more time to consider it. Sainsbury told a court in Bogota on Thursday morning that she “didn’t want to take any package anywhere” but did so under coercion. Sainsbury’s sister had earlier told Channel Seven in Adelaide the plea deal was the best outcome they could have hoped for.

Source: The Guardian July 26, 2017 22:07 UTC