Cape Town man rebuilding his life after lengthy prison term in Peru on drug trafficking charges
IT WAS meant to be a one-off. A risky mission, meticulously put together, that would set Troy Neethling up comfortably for years to come.
The latest figures show that Peru, the world’s second-largest producer of cocaine, accounts for nearly 500 tons of global supply, annually. Shortly before he was due to return home, Neethling’s Peruvian suppliers dropped off a heavy backpack at his hotel. “When I arrived, there were 317 inmates.” Overcrowding at Sarita Colonia is reportedly at 463%. And as things stand, it is the prison hardest hit by the Covid 19 pandemic in Peru.“Tuberculosis was a daily occurrence around us. I saw people die.”“As a new inmate, or somebody foreign, there are visiting hours every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. People are coming to visit with grocery bags filled with food. If you don’t have anyone visiting, it makes life hard.
“Because that is just how corrupt the system is, that side. I was stopped with the 20kg I was hoping to carry through. But I can almost guarantee that this allowed someone else carrying 60 kilos to walk right past customs at that time., and laugh at the bullsh**. Because we understood how the system worked. And it was just one big trap.”
“The role we play is to offer consular services. We visit the prisoners regularly just to check up on them in terms of conditions and any other requests that are within the law that they might want to communicate either to government or their families.”
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