Cassie Sainsbury ‘was globetrotting before arrest’ in Colombia with 5.8kgs of cocaine in her bag

CASSANDRA Sainsbury was reportedly at the end of an international trip that included five countries in six months when she was arrested in Colombia.

CASSANDRA Sainsbury was reportedly at the end of an international trip that included five countries in six months when she was arrested in Colombia.

The Daily Mail reports that 22-year-old Sainsbury, from Adelaide, had been to Vanuatu, China, Canada and the US in the months before being arrested with 5.8 kilograms of cocaine in her bag as she prepared to fly home to Australia via London.

Cassandra Sainsbury, and the Adelaide woman pictured with the 18 bags of cocaine found in her bag. Picture: AP

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Ms Sainsbury’s family say she was on a working holiday to promote her personal training business but her fiance Scott Broadbridge says she hadn’t been a personal trainer for months and that she most recently worked for a cleaning company.

“Although Cassie is a PT, she is not currently personal training and hasn’t been for 6 months. I don’t know why that was mentioned at all,” Mr Broadbridge wrote online.

Cassandra Sainsbury’s sister Khala has defended the 22-year-old. Picture: Dean Martin

Cassandra Sainsbury with her fiance Scott Broadbridge. Picture: Facebook

On April 3 she posted a photo to Instagram saying “going from China’s lovely 27 degree weather to LA’s 7 degree weather is killing me”.

Then on April 8, she posted a photograph indicating that her “work trip” wasn’t involving much work at all.

“Can’t complain about an all expenses paid work trip which is mainly holiday and very little work,” she wrote.

The Bogota International Airport where Cassie Sainsbury was arrested. Picture: Joe Parkin Daniels

In January she appeared to be on another work trip, this time to Canada.

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Ms Sainsbury was moments from arriving at Gate 32 at Colombia’s El Dorado airport when narcotics police swooped on a tip-off from the United States Drug Enforcement Agency.

Cassandra Sainsbury is still in Colombia. Picture: Instagram

They found 18 black packages of cocaine, worth a street value of $2 million in Australia.

Her family says she told them she thought the packages were 15 headphones that a local man had arranged for her to buy at a discount.