Two British teenagers jailed in Ghana for drug-smuggling are due to be freed today after spending a year behind bars.
Yasemin Vatansever and Yatunde Diya, both 17 and from north London, were given 12-month sentences by a court in Accra after their arrests last July for drug-smuggling.
According to the legal charity Fair Trials International, which is supporting the pair, they expect to be released today and hope to return home to the UK by the end of the month.
The girls had hoped to be released in April as the Ghanaian prison authorities have the discretion to take three months off a 12-month sentence.
But only a few days before they had hoped to walk free, they were told they would serve their sentences in full.
The pair were arrested on July 2 at Kotoka Airport in the Ghanaian capital, Accra.
Some 13lb (6kg) of cocaine - said to have a street value of about £300,000 - was found in two laptop computer bags in their luggage.
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