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'I paid corrupt police to leave Peru'

A British woman who used an illegal route to return to the UK while on parole in Peru says five other women have followed the same method.

Lillian Allen had been jailed for eight years in 2011 for trying to smuggle 7kgs of cocaine out of Peru, where she had been due to remain on parole until 2018.

"It's common knowledge among women in the prison that the best way out of the country is to pay corrupt airport police," she told the Victoria Derbyshire programme.

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