‘Peru Two’ medicine mule Melissa Reid is barely recognisable as she is noticed strolling her canine close to her residence – sooner or later earlier than her confederate Michaella McCollum’s BBC documentary airs.
Michaella, 28, and Melissa have been arrested in 2013 for trying to smuggle £1.5 million price of cocaine out of Jorge Chávez Worldwide Airport in Lima, Peru.
Each claimed armed gangsters had compelled them to hold the cocaine – when the truth is they’d willingly smuggled the medicine for a £5,000 cost.
For the reason that pair’s launch in 2016, Melissa has lead a quiet life – in distinction to her partner-in-crime Michaella whose documentary Excessive: Confessions Of An Ibiza Drug Mule might be launched on Sunday.
MailOnline can reveal that Melissa, 27, is single once more after splitting from the backpacker boyfriend Gary Stafford who visited her in jail.
She was photographed strolling her canine after having fun with a picnic throughout a heatwave in Scotland this week.
‘Peru Two’ medicine mule Melissa Reid is barely recognisable as she is noticed strolling her canine close to her residence (pictured) – sooner or later earlier than her confederate Michaella McCollum’s BBC documentary airs
Michaella, 28, and Melissa (pictured) have been arrested in 2013 for trying to smuggle £1.5 million price of cocaine out of Jorge Chávez Worldwide Airport in Lima, Peru
For the reason that pair’s launch in 2016, Melissa (left) has lead a quiet life – in distinction to her partner-in-crime Michaella whose documentary Excessive: Confessions Of An Ibiza Drug Mule might be launched on Sunday
After her return to Scotland, Melissa confessed she had been on a ‘downward spiral’ of ecstasy, cocaine and ketamine in Spain.
A neighbour at her new residence in Kirkintilloch, close to Glasgow – the place she moved following her cut up along with her boyfriend – instructed MailOnline she had no thought of the ex-con’s previous.
The girl – who requested to not be named – stated: ‘We all know her as Mel however did not know she had a historical past like that.
‘To be trustworthy, she is completely down-to-earth and is a candy woman.
Each girls (Michaella, left, and Melissa, proper, pictured after their arrest) claimed armed gangsters had compelled them to hold the cocaine – when the truth is they’d willingly smuggled the medicine for a £5,000 cost
Michaella (pictured) printed her memoirs, You may By no means See Daylight Once more, two years in the past and has launched into a publicity tour – which included being grilled by Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain
MailOnline can reveal that Melissa, 27, (pictured) is attempting to rebuild her life – single once more after splitting from the backpacker boyfriend Gary Stafford who visited her in jail
‘You’d by no means think about, truthfully, however now that you simply point out it she does appear a bit too quiet.
‘I heard she labored for a charity and I see her now and again out strolling the canine, however we do not know her.
‘This can be a quiet neighbourhood and she or he’s a quiet woman, no noise or something.
‘She would not are inclined to have guests or no less than I do not assume so.
‘Possibly she visits her household. She appears to get pleasure from her personal firm and is rarely any trouble.’
In the meantime, Michaella printed her memoirs, You may By no means See Daylight Once more, two years in the past and has launched into a publicity tour – which included being grilled by Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain.
She was photographed strolling her canine after having fun with a picnic throughout a heatwave in Scotland this week (pictured)
After her return to Scotland, Melissa (pictured) confessed she had been on a ‘downward spiral’ of ecstasy, cocaine and ketamine in Spain
And final week noticed the re-release of her guide below the identical title as the tv documentary, Excessive, in a bid to rake in extra cash.
It comprises lurid particulars of her time behind bars together with watching lesbian intercourse classes and being propositioned by jail guards and tells within the documentary of the hellish circumstances of her incarceration.
The BBC’s five-part collection will see Michaella, from Northern Eire, inform her story of her time in jail and the way she was in a position to get an early launch.
She often shares glamorous photographs of herself along with her near-40,000 followers on Instagram, posing with flash vehicles and on holidays overseas.
In a single snap she posed in a skimpy bikini in entrance of the well-known Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
The pair hit the headlines after they have been caught at Jorge Chevez Worldwide Airport in Peru on August 6, 2013, with 11kg of cocaine of their baggage.
A neighbour at her new residence in Kirkintilloch, close to Glasgow – the place she moved following her cut up along with her boyfriend – instructed MailOnline she had no thought of the ex-con’s (pictured) previous
After her launch from jail and deportation again to the UK, Melissa (pictured)landed a job with the Citizen’s Recommendation Bureau charity and retains to herself in line with locals
In December 2014 they have been sentenced to 6 years and eight months in Ancon 2 jail, an hour’s journey north of the capital, Lima, however each have been launched early and deported from Peru in 2016.
Since then Michaella has tried to reinvent herself as a mannequin, creator and superstar – she even has a administration firm for ‘enterprise enquiries’.
However Melissa continues to draw back from her previous and is maybe attempting to reside as much as her household’s aspirations for her to assimilate again into her local people.
After her launch from jail and deportation again to the UK, Melissa landed a job with the Citizen’s Recommendation Bureau charity and retains to herself in line with locals.
She lived in Kilmarnock for a spell with backpacker Mr Stafford who had trekked to go to her in jail in Peru however the couple are now not collectively.
A neighbour of Mr Stafford’s stated: ‘Melissa moved out of their residence a 12 months in the past. She now not lives there and we do not see her anymore.’
Melissa (pictured) lived in Kilmarnock for a spell with backpacker Mr Stafford who had trekked to go to her in jail in Peru however the couple are now not collectively
McCollum’s family and friends may even give private accounts by interviews within the documentary tomorrow.
The synopsis says: ‘Instructed in her personal phrases, McCollum recounts the extraordinary story of how she grew to become notorious worldwide as one half of the Peru Two.
‘From how she was recruited as a cartel medicine mule and got here to be arrested, tried and jailed in one of the crucial infamous most safety prisons in Peru, to the much more extraordinary story of how she bought herself out once more.’
Within the collection, the trafficker, now mom to twin boys Rafael and Rio, will re-tell a few of the tales from her wayward previous that she shared in her guide.
In her memoirs she instructed how she ended up agreeing to be a drug smuggler – and admitted considered one of her greatest regrets was sniffing strains of coke and ketamine off a McDonald’s desk at breakfast the morning of her ill-fated trafficking journey.
