On this day, 18th July 1990: Two English teenagers were held in Thailand over drugs. The two girls were called Patricia Cahill, 17, and Karen Smith, 18, they were from the Midlands and they were arrested for drug smuggling in Thailand.
The girls were arrested at Bangkok airport whilst trying to board a flight to Amsterdam. They had nearly 70lb (32kg) of powdered heroin with a street value of about £4m hidden in shampoo bottles and coffee and biscuit tins. The girls claim they did not know what was in the containers, given to them by a third person.
The girls dad said he did not even know his daughter had left the country. Patrick Cahill thought she was holidaying in Scotland. He said that Patricia was “dead against drugs, she was dead against abortions and things like that.”
