Indyplus video: Melissa Reid and Michaela McCallum at the time of their arrest

Wednesday 18 December 2013 11:55 EST

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The two young women, Melissa Reid and Michaela McCallum, have been given six years in a Peruvian jail after being found guilty for trafficking £1.5m of cocaine. However, the pair could apply to serve their sentences in UK.

Watch the video of the British and Irish women being questioned in the Lima airport at the time of their arrest in August this year:

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