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EXCLUSIVE: Convicted cocaine smuggler released from notorious Colombian jail | 60 Minutes Australia

May 02, 2020
No one should be surprised how often greed and stupidity become close companions. It's something Cassandra Sainsbury knows very well. She did

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for three years. Cassie, as we know her, was locked up in a Colombian prison for trying to smuggle almost six kilograms. of drugs out of the country, as well as imprisonment, her punishment included lashings of public ridicule for being so stupid. Cassie Sainsbury has now been freed and a new woman has emerged from her cells, one who tells Liam Bartlett that she is stronger, wiser and determined to make things right. errors most often associated with misery and despair, Elwin's

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ly harsh past or the women's prison in Bogotá, Colombia occasionally provokes other emotions, very late one night, just a few days ago, it became a place of absolute joy when it opened its heavy doors and throughout a drug trafficking business.
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The inmate at the time It was impossible to wipe the smile off Cassie Sainsbury's face when Cassandra was sensationally arrested in Colombia in April 2017. Headline writers didn't break a sweat coming up with a

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nickname. Kasi, the then 22-year-old from Adelaide was caught. With almost 6 kilos of drugs stuffed in her suitcase at her house, the Australians were instantly stunned. Someone could be that stupid, but what then unraveled was a sordid story fueled by drugs, sex and lies. Tonight, after three years locked away, Cassie wants to talk, he doesn't. Actually, I still feel real about her days in prison.
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I wake up in the shit of her and the new love of her life. She also wants to clarify what brought her here in the first place. So were you lying to me before? Her confessions could change the way. you think about her. I'm wondering if you have trouble remembering what's really true compared to the version you told me before, but only if you think she's telling the truth. I'm being honest and I wouldn't wait anywhere to go over everything I think. I've been through Eva, if three years in prison gave Cassie anything, it was the opportunity to reflect on her questionable past.
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Great about the situation she found me in, but everything has made me stronger. What's happened since I've been here. I have been learning many lessons and everyone makes mistakes. She documented the last few days inside her as she anxiously awaited news of her parole and when the time finally came for her release she was greeted by her best friend and Cassie's former cellmate. Cassie's relief was palpable, it's been three pitches. For years watching the moment I was going to walk out this door, I feel free at the same time this moment doesn't feel real and won't feel real for quite some time because, like the rest of the world, Bogotá, once bustling, is now locked down in an attempt to combat the coronavirus.
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Cassie hello, how are you? Thanks Liam, how are you? That means for Cassie that her newfound freedom comes with a new form of confinement. It's ironic, isn't it? You finally get out of

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. and you are still locked up, yes, it is a yes, but at the same time it is freedom, so in total you spent three years in prison, it was 2 years, 11 months and 21 days, you must have been counting down to the life of Cassandra Glynn. I first met Cassie in prison shortly after her arrest in 2017, then she was not very communicative and much less credible, since how poor that we continue like this here, isn't it?
But today she assures me that she is a very different girl. I'm burning a lot and I learned a lot about myself, I learn a lot about people, I shouldn't trust people so much, it's definitely been like a huge learning curve, but at the same time, everything I went through in prison, everything I learned, I would. I don't change it because it has made me a stronger person, it has made me who I am today there is no doubt that in many ways Cassie has changed for starters she has found a new love good morning I would like to introduce you to Johnny while he was in prison he separated from her ex-fiancé Scott Broad Bridge and began a relationship with a fellow inmate; honestly, it was the least she expected to find in prison.
I can say it started as a friendship and then out of nowhere it turned into a relationship, hmm, so along with the maturity you say you found in prison it was also what discovered you gay or has it always been that way oh no, I didn't find out I was gay so yeah, I guess I've actually had experiences with women beforehand, but More like, I guess I never imagined myself in a proper relationship with a woman, but here I am, they were together for nine months before Jolie get down on one knee and propose in front of his cellmates, Cassie's new fiancé, who is serving time for The Robbery, is due for parole soon, and Cassie isn't the only person awaiting release.
It developed early when you talk to her and hopefully it will come out soon. Cassie's freedom is a bittersweet relief for her mother Lisa due to related covert travel bans. in Adelaide can't visit her daughter it's been a long time since I saw you tears more than tears for now her only hope of seeing each other is through a computer screen and I've changed like two years how come they oh yeah um, ya I'm thinner Cassie has plans for future job offers in that you have to work, obviously a couple of people have talked to me about modeling and other things, but right now there's nothing to do here.
Colombia at this moment there is no work there is nothing oh of course but it has to be finished it has to be finished just take care of yourself if you go out use masks you have sanitizer and everything everywhere I go I have a mask mmm gloves right I want me to tell you the truth, well, obviously I know the truth now that you say that it is fair to say that Cassie has long struggled with the truth; In fact, her story has been riddled with lies from the beginning to understand how she ended up so foolishly behind her. bars in Bogotá, you have to delve into her past in her small hometown in South Australia, a cash-strapped young Cassie was known for her get-rich-quick schemes, she volunteered to take care of the club's finances.
Cabal we tennis. Allegations of deception date back to 2015 to bank accounts for online transactions when residents claimed he had stolen money from the local tennis club and later that year refused to pay rent to the landlord when his gym business went bankrupt. Cassy has long denied accusations that there are a lot of people here, at least the As far as you are concerned, all of those people so far have made a mistake or have practically singled you out these days. There is one thing she is willing to admit: as a younger woman, Cassy made a series of regrettable decisions in an attempt to free herself from a cycle of debt in which she felt trapped.
The situation was very difficult for Scott and me. Neither of us had jobs we had rent to pay we had bills to pay and it was like we had all this pressure on It was on top of me to try to do something before we went under so I applied for a job offer which was to work as a receptionist in a brothel, but that wasn't entirely true, it wasn't like that. Cassie's life becomes that kind of conflict. of person we need to try to be a sex worker seduced by greed, get drunk, get drunk and head towards hell. lean was my Heart, next in 60

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, is a question that has puzzled us for a long time, why would a young Australian make such a bold attempt to smuggle almost 6 kilos of cocaine out of Colombia today after three years hit in Bogotá kasi Sainsbury says she is ready to explain, let's talk about her side of the story, shall we? and it all boils down to a desperate attempt to make a quick buck Cassie says the saga began in late 2016 when, under the burden of her debts, she applied for a job as a receptionist at a brothel in Penrith, western Sydney, a former A colleague from the to 200 club told Cassie she would be traveling 60

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from her home and work in Adelaide. under the pseudonym Claudia she would arrive by plane and sometimes stay a week or sometimes just two, three or four days when I met her she was at a prostitute Cassie V mentally denied the claims that you were not a prostitute, no.
I never worked at the 220 club, there was some work related to the t2i club but it wasn't prostitution, I wasn't really sure about that, while Cassie maintains that she applied for a position as a receptionist, she claims that when she arrived, her bosses talked her into it. to become a prostitute I got there and it was, but you're not the type of person to be a receptionist, you're the type of person who needs to try to be me a sex worker, so I was going to change if not. we work, we understand it and we'll see what we can do, so it was like I didn't feel comfortable doing it.
I didn't like doing it. It wasn't like what Cassie says she did. She didn't last long at a job and when she decided to leave her brothel, her bosses introduced her to a mysterious man who offered her a role as a messenger. What is Joshua's name? Joshua Joshua. What I never even knew was that cool name. What does Joshua look like? He was tall but stocky, green eyes, brown hair, how old was he? I would say he would be between 30 and 45 years old, 30 to 45 years old, tall, slightly chubby, green eyes, so we've narrowed it down to about 800,000 Australians.
Did you get a business card from him or something armed with so little information? You'd have to wonder why Cassie would trust this man, but apparently she did and after a few months of working for him, she accepted an international opportunity that came with a ten. thousand dollar check In April 2017, Cassie boarded a flight in Adelaide to Guangzhou, China, from there she flew to Los Angeles and then to Bogotá. When she arrived, she was ordered to check into a local hotel where, she says, she met the mastermind behind the smuggling. operation when I first asked her about it Cassie was as elusive as the man she described what did he say her name was Angela?
Angela's last name means very, very vague on the details, but today Cassie herself is less vague on the details and she names the drug dealer as 39. Angelo Sanchez, one-year-old Brazilian, were you lying to me earlier? I wouldn't say he was lying, but he wasn't giving you everything. It turns out that you got the last night from him, so which version, which version is true, this last version, that's your The true version is that I already paid for my time. I don't have I don't have a reason to lie about it. Hopefully Cassie isn't lying just because what she says happened in the following days when he took her away. going to his apartment is horrible and still distressing for her what happened yes he was basically saying that she had to be there with him that she had to do what he wanted that he had no other choice and then get me a tender and It was almost as if I felt like I was getting drunk, like I was getting drunk and like I was getting sleepy, do you think he put a touch in that drink, yeah, I'm from there, he was basically naked and he attacked you, youkai. you want to take a little break you want to take a little break for a second you feel like you're sinking and there's no way to reach out and hit the water the wise advice if that makes me desperate and makes me a stupid failure i need something with weight i need something with everything but regret drug dealer yes, there are no shortcuts, they're the ones on 60 Minutes, life these days looks very different for Cassandra Sainsbury, who has just spent three years in prison after trying to smuggle almost six kilos of cocaine. from Colombia

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on parole amid corona virus pandemic Cassie has gone from the confines of her cell to the confines of an apartment.
It's hard, but what helps her get through it is the love and support of her new fiancé Jolie, whom she met behind bars while they were waiting. Jolly's release, a man had re-evaluated himself, you connect lovingly through occasional phone calls and written letters, do you think he has made you mature a little? Yes, definitely, in her first interview after his release, Cassie assures me that she is a different and naïve girl than the Defiants. I met her shortly after her arrest. At first she didn't even know about her drugs. She came here. They told me that she was basically going to transport documents as a personal courier or something like that.
Yes, Cassie remains adamant that she was not a willing Drug Mule, she claims that she only realized the job was more sinister when she landed in Bogotá and was confronted by an abusive and menacing Brazilian drug dealer named Angelo. Sanchez. By then she says it was too late to back out, so it was like he just put the threat on me saying that if he didn't do what they asked me to do, that would be my family. I feel like he had to move on because he couldn't get someone else to pay them. Oh, my bad, who did she threaten? kill, threatened to kill my sister like they had pictures of me see that and they also sent me two pictures of Scott so they wanted surveillance pictures it's like someone had been following them but when you originally told me that, You said He also threatened to kill your mom, but now you said it was just your sister from your then fiancé,Although the photos I received from my sister and Scott, but they always said in Hannah and Hannah Dan in general, they said the people I care about. so I guess you could say I took it like everyone else, but officially what they sent me was my sister and my ex-fiancé crippled by fear.
Cassie says she allowed Angelo to pack his suitcase before heading to BA Guitars International Airport to board. On a flight to London, this CCTV shows Cassie walking through immigration shortly after being arrested, let's look at the facts for a moment, so they catch you at immigration and the police take you away, they open your bag and they find the 5, 8 kilos. of cocaine and this is just our a couple of hours after Angelo threatened to kill his loved ones, it's just days after you say you were raped by this drug mastermind and he's standing there with the police and you have hard evidence about this, but you choose not to say anything to anyone in that room about any of it, nor to anyone, an authority who could help you.
Now explain that to me, how can we believe that is possible? Yes, because it's not mine to say, this person did it, it's not that easy because they don't believe anyone when they summoned Cassie to court, she claimed she was acting under duress, my family and my partner would be killed, but no. He presented the evidence he said he had on his phone. to prove that it is true that you have forgotten the password. Cassie's next statement as to why she couldn't access that test has baffled me for a long time. Are you serious? Have you forgotten the password.
Yeah, I mean, think about it. I'm thinking. In fact, I'm sure I don't know another millennial who would have forgotten their potential password if I knew the password and told my lawyer I would give it to them, but that's about it. If I can't remember it, I have nothing to give them. Did you still forget that password? Yes, that password has been lost in the dark, dark corners of your memories. Unfortunately, yes, because I also know that everyone says it's stupid, how can someone forget a password, especially if they have one? As key evidence, well, it's a great question, isn't it?
Why are you so excited about that? Why does that particular incident make you theorize? What is it about? I guess you could say the fact that you know if I had had the chance sooner, oh they gave me the chance to try again, it's off the phone that I would never have had to do it, I've done my time. ID. Kassie ultimately accepted a plea deal and was sentenced to a maximum of six years behind bars. How are you, although it's still difficult to distinguish fact from fiction? One thing about Cassie's story is clear, and that's what motivated her to take that tense, fateful job in the first place, but wasn't that promise of money, Cassie, that really helped you?
Problem if I was really honest with yourself, that's what really got you there, right? It's that fair. I know it sounds because I obviously agreed to come and do it for money, because she needed money, but it wasn't exactly how I did it. I got there thinking yeah I'm going to go smuggle drugs, I didn't, but when I got there I knew something was weird, I knew something was wrong and it was like I was here like I already had both feet caught in this. By the way, no one knows what it's like when you feel like you're sinking and there's no way to reach the water and hit it Cassie, how are we going to describe what happened to you?
Is naivety stupid or are you just the unluckiest girl in the world? If that mix between bad desperate means stupid and wanting to drive try to do something, go ahead and it turned out well because I lost three years of my life, what would you say to young girls in Australia who may face the same kind of difficulties in terms of paying bills and be thinking about getting a job and what would you say to them that says easy money and the faster it goes doesn't mean how you think it doesn't last at all that to value freedom you don't even think That because you need something, you should be willing to accept whatever it takes to do it .
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