Girls sentenced in Ghana over drug trafficking could be released in months

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By Rich Bowden, M&C Staff Writer Jan 24, 2008, 11:22 GMT

(M&C) - Two British teenagers sentenced to less than a year's imprisonment over an attempt to smuggle cocaine from Ghana could be free in months.

Two 16 year old British girls, Yasemin Vatansever and Yatunde Diya, with faces covered with cloth are escorted into a waiting vehicle outside the High Court, Accra, Ghana 23 January 2008. The two girls found guilty of smuggling cocaine in November 2007 were sentenced to nine months in prison in Ghana Wednesday. The girls will not have to serve the full sentence because they have already spent more than six months in jail. EPA/HANNAH ZITNER

Two 16 year old British girls, Yasemin Vatansever and Yatunde Diya, with faces covered with cloth are escorted into a waiting vehicle outside the High Court, Accra, Ghana 23 January 2008. The two girls found guilty of smuggling cocaine in November 2007 were sentenced to nine months in prison in Ghana Wednesday. The girls will not have to serve the full sentence because they have already spent more than six months in jail. EPA/HANNAH ZITNERYasemin Vatansever and Yatunde Diya, both 16, from North London were found guilty of drug trafficking in November after they were found to be carrying £300,000 of cocaine in laptop bags prior to flying out of the country on July 2. The pair were sentenced to nine months imprisonment Wednesday.However because the sentence incuded time spent behind bars since their conviction in November, the pair will be able to walk free by April according to Ghanaian authorities.They will likely serve their sentence in a juvenile prison where they may be allowed to attend a local school reports the Sun.A prison insider quoted by the newspaper said: "Compared to some of the adult jails in Ghana, it is very cushy indeed."

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