Dad of Brit facing 60yrs in US prison for ‘trying to smuggle £3.5m in cocaine’ insists she is ‘only guilty of stupidity’

THE DAD of a Brit beautician facing up to 60 years successful jailhouse successful the US aft allegedly smuggling £3.5million worthy of cocaine has insisted she is "only blameworthy of stupidity".

John Hall, 59, defended his girl Kim, 28, after she was detained astatine Chicago’s O’Hare airport arsenic she was waiting for her connecting formation to Manchester.

The dada said she was offered the escaped vacation by radical she met connected an earlier travel to Portugal.

And helium insisted each she is blameworthy of is “stupidity and naivety” arsenic they desperately hold for news.

John said that she is "petrified" - and that astatine archetypal she could hardly talk to her household done floods of tears aft the arrest.

The dada is convinced that Kim would person been "forced" to transportation the drugs "without a shadiness of a doubt".

John told The Sun: "She's not a cause smuggler.

“She was told that it would beryllium money she was carrying. They got her telephone and threatened her household and that’s wherefore she did it.

“She'd been to Portugal with a person and met radical implicit determination who contacted her erstwhile she was backmost saying they were into existent property successful Mexico and she could spell for a escaped holiday.

“Her person declined but she said she would go.

“She's ne'er been into trouble, thing astatine all. She’s had a bully upbringing and has ever worked for her money.

“The lone happening she's blameworthy of is being anserine and being naive.”

Homeland Security investigators swooped aft uncovering 43kg of cocaine successful 2 suitcases.

Kim insists she was forced to transportation the bags for 2 men who had offered her a escaped vacation to Cancun but threatened her erstwhile she was there.

The self-employed beautician, of Middlesbrough, was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance and possession with intent to present aft her apprehension successful August.

As the magnitude she was allegedly recovered with is much than 900 grams the offence is successful the apical bracket for sentencing – it is simply a Class X Felony which carries 15-60 years successful prison.

She has already made a fig of preliminary appearances astatine the Circuit Court of Cook County and is being held successful Chicago awaiting trial, which could beryllium a twelvemonth off.

Her family, who person had to ammunition retired £28,000 for a section attorney, are terrified astir her carnal and intelligence well-being.

John added: “For the archetypal fewer weeks, you couldn't talk to her for the tears.

“She said: ‘You don't recognize what they were threatening maine with’. That's arsenic overmuch arsenic we tin get retired of her.

“She's petrified.

“Without a shadiness of a uncertainty she was forced into carrying this worldly back.

"And I'm not conscionable saying that to effort and support my daughter.

“I'm telling you that arsenic a begetter who knows a girl wrong out.”

A Cook County tribunal spokeswoman said: “Her adjacent quality is connected November 13.”