A BRITISH gran jailed for smuggling £1million of cocaine has died in agony alone in a Portuguese jail.
Susan Clarke, 72, died of breast most cancers final Sunday within the jail the place she was serving eight years, The Sunday Mirror studies.
As her situation acquired worse she was granted a final go to from husband Roger, 73.
They’d been caged two years in the past and despatched to separate jails.
A supply instructed The Sunday Mirror Susan had been attributable to return to England to complete her sentence.
They stated being with out her household in her final hours will need to have been “torture”.
‘TORTURE’
The supply stated: “She was handed a life sentence – left to die in a international jail with no family members round her.
“4 weeks in the past she was given one final go to with Roger. They noticed one another by way of a Perspex window.
“She had a lump in her throat which meant she couldn’t really communicate.
“She was battling breast most cancers however the medical doctors in Portugal determined that there was nothing they might do for her, in order that they stopped her therapy.
“She was in a lot ache. Roger appears to suppose they’d received a battle to return again to the UK to, so he’s devastated that she wasn’t effectively sufficient to make the transfer.”
She was battling breast most cancers however the medical doctors in Portugal determined that there was nothing they might do for her, in order that they stopped her therapy
A supply to the Sunday Mirror
Clarke, from Chatham, Kent, was serving eight years in a maximum-security jail in Portugal following her conviction in September, 2019.
She had been sharing a rat-infested 10ft by 10ft cell with three different criminals in Lisbon’s girls’s jail EP Tires.
Her husband has been serving the identical time period in one other jail in Lisbon earlier than being transferred a lower-security website.
They’d been arrested after a tip-off when the Marco Polo liner they have been on arrived at Lisbon from the Caribbean in December, 2018.
COCAINE CRUISE BUST
The pensioners had been in the course of a dream £6,800 Caribbean cruise when Portuguese officers have been tipped off by UK cops.
Cops discovered 20lb of cocaine within the linings of 4 suitcases.
Each declare they have been duped into carrying the medication by criminals regardless of being beforehand jailed in Norway in 2010 for smuggling giant portions of hashish.
Roger claims he believed he was carrying unique fruit which may very well be bought at Harrods.
‘DEATH SENTENCE’
Prosecutors stated the cocaine was supposed to be bought within the UK.
They stated the Brit couple have been drug mules who used 4 cruises in two years to smuggle narcotics for £26,500 a time.
Susan beforehand revealed how she had misplaced practically three stone after being locked up, and feared she would die in jail after creating breast most cancers.
She instructed The Sunday Individuals: “I’ll by no means get out of right here alive and there’s no means I can cut back my sentence now.
“We have been made an instance of however I’ve been handed a demise sentence. My fear is that I’ll by no means be free and I’ll be leaving right here in a field.”
The gran-of-eight stated the worst a part of her sentence was being other than her husband.
She slammed UK authorities for not serving to her and Roger after the couple misplaced an attraction towards their sentence, saying: “We really feel utterly deserted.
“The International Workplace has ignored us, Boris Johnson has not helped and we have now been utterly lower adrift.”