‘It seemed really legit,’ says Brit caught with £15m of cocaine after accepting free Cancun holiday from strange men

A BRIT pistillate who was caught with £15m of cocaine aft accepting a escaped sunny vacation successful Cancun has said the woody looked "really legit".

Kim Hall, 28, is present facing 60 agelong years successful American jail aft being accused of possessing 43kg of the Class A cause successful her vacation suitcases.

The Brit pistillate from Middlesbrough was arrested connected August 18 astatine Chicago’s O’Hare airdrome arsenic she was going done information to drawback a connecting formation to London.

She was connected her mode location from a week-long vacation successful Mexico.

Kim said she had been offered the escaped vacation to Cancun by 2 British men she met connected an earlier travel to Portugal.

All she had to bash was bring backmost 2 suitcases she thought contained $250,000 successful currency backmost home.

She was reportedly told the money belonged to 1 of the 2 men's household who "lost his passport and was successful trouble".

She agreed but past had a fallout with the men who threatened her with a weapon and took her telephone and passport disconnected her.

Kim yet caught a formation location but was stopped successful Chicago erstwhile Homeland Security officials recovered the drugs during a random check.

She collapsed successful tears arsenic she was handcuffed and hauled disconnected to jail.

Protesting her innocence, the self-employed beautician told ITV's This Morning: "It conscionable seemed truly legit and straightforward.

"I was going to spell connected a holiday, instrumentality a interruption and conscionable bash them a favour by bringing backmost this wealth to springiness to a subordinate of their family.

"They conscionable said that 1 of them had mislaid their passport and they were successful occupation and needed to get immoderate wealth location to their family."

Kim claims she was told it was thing to interest astir arsenic the wealth could beryllium justified to customs officers.

She said that the 2 men "didn't travel crossed arsenic being criminals" - and that she accepted the escaped vacation due to the fact that she needed "a spot of breathing space".

She added: "I conscionable had a batch going connected astatine location astatine the clip and I conscionable needed a spot of breathing abstraction truthful it was a enactment of caller aerial truly to spell there.

"I spent the holiday unsocial truly for the full week, I conscionable met them concisely astatine the opening and past I spent a batch of clip connected my own."

Thre Brit pistillate said she did not look wrong the suitcase due to the fact that she "didn't privation to marque the concern worse" if immoderate wealth were to spell missing. 

Kim has present been charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance and intent to present it.

As the magnitude she was allegedly recovered with is much than 900 grams the offence is successful the apical bracket for sentencing — a Class X Felony which carries 15 to 60 years successful jail.

Kim appeared successful court successful South California this month.

The Brit woman, who has antecedently pleaded not blameworthy to possession of a controlled substance and possession with intent to deliver, appeared earlier Judge Michael B McHale for a two-minute hearing.

A defiant Kim said: “My presumption has not changed.

“I americium guiltless of these charges – I did not traffic drugs.”

Speaking to The Sun, the Brit beautician said: “There's nary mode that I would knowingly transport drugs successful immoderate way, signifier oregon form.

“I'm not a atrocious person. I’ve ne'er been successful occupation successful my beingness and I'm not blameworthy of what they are accusing maine of."

The pistillate claimed 1 of the men enactment a weapon to her caput and threatened her to transportation the suitcases.

“I didn't knowingly smuggle drugs. I’m not a cause trafficker and I’m going to combat to beryllium my innocence with each bony successful my body," she said.

“The 2 guys threatened me, but not conscionable with words.

“They were annoyed due to the fact that they thought I was trying to debar taking the suitcases.

“One of them dragged maine disconnected the furniture by my hair and held a handgun to my head.

“He said: ‘I'll f*cking sprout you.’ It was the astir frightening happening I've ever experienced successful my life.

“This has gone from: ‘Come to Mexico for a holiday’ to being held astatine gunpoint.

“They held a weapon to my caput and threatened to sprout me.”

When she was arrested astatine the airdrome she suffered a panic attack.

She said: “I was successful shock, wholly numb, it was specified a bizarre feeling similar I was watching idiosyncratic other successful a film.

“I couldn't breathe.

“I cried and cried, I was pleading with them to fto maine telephone my mum and dad.

Kim is connected location apprehension and is allowed retired 2 days a week but has to deterioration 2 physics tags.

'DESPERATELY NEEDS HELP'

The Sun was determination connected 1 of those days retired erstwhile she had an affectional reunion with dada John, 59 — the archetypal household subordinate she has seen since her apprehension astir 3 months ago.

After hugging his daughter, operation brag John deed retired astatine the deficiency of enactment from the Government.

He said: “When a British nationalist is successful occupation abroad, your archetypal determination is to telephone the British Embassy and you expect back-up.

“We phoned and I yet got enactment done to a enactment squad but they said they’re not allowed to get progressive successful transgression investigations.

“I said, ‘She desperately needs help.’ I explained each this to them and each they did was springiness maine a database of charities to contact.

“Nobody helped. I’m disgusted with the British Government.”

John, who is paying for Kim’s attorney, added: “It’s heartbreaking to spot her similar this. It’s a concern that nary dada would ever deliberation helium would find himself in.

“We’ll bash everything we tin to bring her home. She is innocent.”

While she has been held connected remand, Kim, whose dreams of becoming a theatrical make-up artist present prevarication successful tatters, has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

And she said her psychiatrist reckons she was successful the mediate of a manic occurrence erstwhile she agreed to transportation the suitcases.

She added: “Being diagnosed was a hard pill to swallow but it was besides a alleviation to cognize due to the fact that I thought I’d gone crazy.

“I judge there’s been a intelligence unwellness determination for a agelong portion but it got truly terrible implicit the past 3 to 4 years.

“You decidedly person impaired reasoning due to the fact that of it and don’t truly spot the consequences of thing atrocious astir to happen.