'My stupidity caused this', says Brit, 77, whose wife died behind bars after pair jailed over £1m cocaine haul | 8KO82G1 | 2024-02-26 06:08:01
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AN OAP drug mule jailed alongside his late wife for a £1 million Cocaine haul insists: "My stupidity brought about this".
Roger and Sue Clarke have been caged for eight years after Portuguese cops discovered 20lbs of the Class A in their suitcase.
Sue died in jail in 2021 and Roger was deported to the UK to serve the remainder of his sentence.
However despite years of drug running across Europe, Roger, 77, maintains his innocence and now needs £60,000 compensation.
Talking on day launch at a Morrisons cafe in Sittingbourne, Kent, he informed The Mirror: "I'm doing time I shouldn't be doing.
"I feel it's a breach of my human rights. Sue knew nothing. I blame myself, I ought to have checked."
The couple have been on a cruise from St Lucia to Portugal in December 2018 when buddies allegedly asked Roger to take a suitcase.
He claims he had accomplished it for the couple before and despite being searched "4 occasions" there was never anything found.
But the grandparents, from Chatham,& Kent, have been arrested following a tip-off because the Marco Polo liner docked in Lisbon.
The arrest left Roger "shocked" and he had "no concept" the four instances have been full of coke.
Their 2018 arrest got here simply eight years after the pair have been caught smuggling 240kg of hashish into Norway, before happening the run to the Costa Blanca, Spain.
Police stated they used 4 cruises in two years as a entrance, making as much as £26,500 per trip.
Each have been handed an eight yr jail time period for the cocaine haul however when Sue died aged 72 of breast most cancers in 2021 Roger came again to the UK.
He now claims he's a victim of "false imprisonment" and alleges his case hasn't been heard in entrance of a Uk decide.
In an astonishing claim of innocence, he added: "I ought to have served four years but now I'm being informed to do 5 and a half.
"I feel like I'm a free man nonetheless in prison."
Roger, who stated he has critical health points and wishes a pacemaker, claimed he's owed £107 a day for being in prison "unfairly".
He claims the authorities demanded £35,000 to repatriate Sue's body but he might only afford £1,500 for her cremation.
Talking in 2021, Sue's ex-husband John Smeathers of 20-years accused Roger of "leading her astray".
He added: "She didn't deserve to satisfy the guy she met. She claimed they have been harmless which is pretty troublesome to consider.
"With no shadow of a doubt, he led her astray. Before she met him, she was just a normal Cheadle Hulme housewife."
Roger – who says his household has disowned him – is about to be freed in Might.
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