Cocaine Cassie Sainsbury’s fiance, family visit her in Bogota prison

CASSIE Sainsbury’s fiance has visited her in prison for the first time bearing a single red rose, while her mother and sister also brought comforts from home.

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CASSIE Sainsbury’s fiance Scott Broadbridge has arrived to visit her at the Bogotá prison where she has spent the past month.

He was accompanied to the door of El Buen Pastor by a crew from Seven’s Sunday Night program on Monday.

Broadbridge carried a firmly packed overnight bag with some fresh clothes, as well as a single red rose and plastic bag with some kind of food.

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Scott Broadbridge came carrying an overnight bag with fresh clothes, a plastic bag with food and a single red rose. Picture: Guillermo Legaria.

Broadbridge was given permission to visit despite it not being official visiting hours. The Adelaide man was carrying two bags to give to his fiance.

Shortly after Broadbridge left the prison, Cassie’s mother and sister arrived for their long-awaited visit. They carried at least two packed bags into the prison.

Cassie Sainsbury's fiance Scott arrives at El Buen Pastor jail to visit her. Picture: Guillermo Legaria

The pair spent just over an hour inside the prison visiting Sainsbury. They were accompanied by Sydney lawyer Jay Williams and none of them wished to comment to waiting media as they left the prison.

Lisa Evans and daughter Khala Sainsbury’s access was arranged by Australian consular officials who have been working to get special permission for Cassie to be seen outside official visiting days.

Cassie Sainsbury's fiance Scott arrives at El Buen Pastor jail to visit her. Picture: Guillermo Legaria

They didn’t arrange their paperwork in time to see her on Mother’s Day.

Mum and daughter have been holed up in the Colombia capital with a crew from Channel Nine’s 60 Minutes, who have controversially paid for exclusive access to their story.

Cassie Sainsbury's mother arrives at El Buen Pastor women's jail. Picture: Guillermo Legaria.

Sainsbury has been jailed in the women’s prison since April 11 after being arrested trying to smuggle almost 6kg of cocaine in her luggage home to Australia.

She has told News Corp Australia she is angry with her family for making the paid media deal without first seeking her permission.

Cassie Sainsbury's sister arrives at El Buen Pastor women's jail. Picture: Guillermo Legaria.

“It’s my story. They need to get permission from me to sell my story,” she said last week.

Sainsbury has instead backed her fiance’s competing tell-all with Channel Seven’s Sunday Night, saying she approved of the deal and would co-operate because he had asked for her approval for the deal.

Cassie Sainsbury's mother and sister are frisked by guards on their way into El Buen Pastor women's jail. Picture: Guillermo Legaria.

Cassie Sainsbury's mother and sister, pictured, have been holed up in the Colombia capital with a crew from Channel Nine’s 60 Minutes. Picture: Guillermo Legaria.

The attention drawn by Sainsbury’s arrest is starting to anger some locals, with former prisoner Doris Garcia approaching press gathered outside the women’s prison to complain today.

“Cassandra is lying,” said Garcia, who was returning to visit friends in the jail in which she served 19 months for fraud.

Cassie Sainsbury's mother and sister leave El Buen Pastor women's jail after visiting Cassandra. Picture: Guillermo Legaria.

Sainsbury told News Corp Australia last week she was being bullied and targeted because she is a foreigner.

But Garcia said her claims were nonsense: “The foreigners are treated very well here.”

Cassie Sainsbury's fiance Scott Broadbridge smiles as he leaves El Buen Pastor women's jail after visiting Cassandra. Picture: Guillermo Legaria.

“The foreigners have priority with medical doctors, with phone calls. The guards treat them very well; in fact they do not permit anybody (to) look at the foreigners. The guards take care of them. She is in a good patio, she is in one of the best patios. The foreigners are untouchables; they get very good treatment.”

Doris Garcia, a former inmate of El Buen Pastor jail in Bogota, said Aussie drug smuggler Cassie Sainsbury is lying about the conditions in the prison. Picture: Guillermo Legaria.

Cassie Sainsbury waves to the media from inside the jail in Bogota.

Garcia said she was offended by the competing cash for comment deals signed by Sainsbury’s family and fiance.

“The family of this woman sold her story. It is not a game to be in a jail,” she said.

Garcia was joined by another former prisoner who said Sainsbury’s descriptions of a difficult life in jail were overblown.

Cassie Sainsbury has been jailed in the women’s prison since April 11 after being arrested trying to smuggle almost 6kg of cocaine in her luggage home to Australia. Picture: Colombia’s Antinarcotics Police.

“From that blue door to inside we make our own life,” she said, pointing to the prison’s entrance.

“We laugh a lot, many of us can find a couple if is our (desire) to have a different sexual inclination and we can have a full life.

“I am angry about the bad information. I am very good friends with women inside, who gave me their hand and taught me to live in there.”