My suitcase hell: ‘I was waiting for a moment to just kind of kill myself’, says Cassandra Sainsbury
Cassandra Sainsbury says she felt her life was over when jailed for drug trafficking.
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Cassandra Sainsbury says she felt her life was over when jailed for drug trafficking.
The now 28-year-old spent three years in a brutal Colombian prison after being caught with a suitcase containing 5.8kg of cocaine in 2017.
“My life was over,” Sainsbury told Secrets of the Underworld podcaster Neil Cummins.
“I did not see an end and I was waiting for a moment to just kind of kill myself. That is all I wanted to do because it was three years of misery.”
As a foreigner, Sainsbury explained that she was “picked on so much” and with her life threatened, she was placed in isolation for 14 months.
“They sent me to a high security yard where I was basically in isolation. It was a way of keeping me safe but it did not help my mental health at all,” she said.
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