Betrayed : the incredible untold inside story of the two most unlikely drug-running grannies in Australian history / Drug traffic Drug couriers.
Logan, Sandi.
Betrayed : the incredible untold inside story of the two most unlikely drug-running grannies in Australian history / Sandi Logan. - xii, 333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm.
In 1977, Vera 'Toddie' Hays and Florice 'Beezie" Bessire thought they were about to embark on the trip of a lifetime when Vera's nephew, Vern Todd, offered them a campervan to drive from Germany to India. Little did the women know that Vern and his accomplices would secretly pack two tonnes of hashish into the vehicle along the way. This shocking inside story chronicles Toddie and Beezie's wild ride across continents and oceans to our shores, their arrest by Australia Federal Bureau of Narcotics agents, and all that the women faced in the aftermath. On the ground at the time, journalist Sandi Logan draws from his interviews with those attached to the events, and accounts in the women's diaries, to tel lthe incredible tale of an unlikely pair who became infamous and their fight for justice.
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Betrayed : the incredible untold inside story of the two most unlikely drug-running grannies in Australian history / Sandi Logan. - xii, 333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm.
In 1977, Vera 'Toddie' Hays and Florice 'Beezie" Bessire thought they were about to embark on the trip of a lifetime when Vera's nephew, Vern Todd, offered them a campervan to drive from Germany to India. Little did the women know that Vern and his accomplices would secretly pack two tonnes of hashish into the vehicle along the way. This shocking inside story chronicles Toddie and Beezie's wild ride across continents and oceans to our shores, their arrest by Australia Federal Bureau of Narcotics agents, and all that the women faced in the aftermath. On the ground at the time, journalist Sandi Logan draws from his interviews with those attached to the events, and accounts in the women's diaries, to tel lthe incredible tale of an unlikely pair who became infamous and their fight for justice.
9780733648601 0733648606
Drug traffic--Case studies.
Drug couriers.
363.45 364.13365