Mules

As many as one in five women in prison in Britain today is a Nigerian woman convicted of smuggling drugs into the UK. Driven by desperation and poverty, the women swallow the drugs in packages or stuff them into body orifices. Inside Story follows HM Customs and Excise at work at Heathrow Airport and talks to the women in prison themselves who reveal their heart-breaking stories as the victims of the drug trade.

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