7NEWS Spotlight: The Confession
This Sunday, 8.40pm
‘Cocaine Cassie’ introduces her new wife to Australia and finally tells the truth about her drug mule disaster
When a South Australian gym bunny turned up in police custody at a Bogota airport in 2017, with six kilograms of drugs in her suitcase, “Cocaine Cassie” Sainsbury would become the stuff of criminal folklore.
Smuggling the banned narcotic in a bag full of headphones she claimed were wedding favours, the blonde bride-to-be was dubbed the new Schapelle Corby, dumped in one of the world’s worst women’s prison and left there to rot.
While her mother, sister and then fiancé Scott pleaded for her release, Sainsbury’s father Stuart has been open about showing his sex worker daughter some tough love; lashing her crime in the press and bad-mouthing her to anyone who’d listen.
Now, after spending three years in El Buen Pastor prison (and another three on parole in the drug capital), Cassie’s come home to give her first real confessional to 7NEWS Spotlight, to air 8.40pm this Sunday on Channel 7 and 7plus .
Admitting she lied in previous interviews, the convicted drug smuggler walks Australia through every step of her criminal activity – and the nation will be gobsmacked by how far she goes.
In an interview full of shocks, award-winning reporter Ross Coulthart calls “Cocaine Cassie” to account and finally gets to the terrible truth of how she played such a dangerous game.
There will be tears, but she’s also got reason to smile, inviting the audience to her beach wedding and sharing a love story like no other.
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