Banged Up Abroad

Relive the terrifying ordeal faced by Greg Williams, a church volunteer who in 1996 was kidnapped by a terrorist group with links to Al-Qaeda.

In 1977, Jake Libbon was fresh out of high school and headed off to Mexico in search of adventure and excitement. Funding his stay by selling Marijuana to tourists, he unwisely attempted a deal too far when he agreed to supply another American with two kilos of the drug. A resulting drugs bust would see him witness two policemen shot point blank as well as being shot himself.

Falsely accused of smuggling hashish in Bali, Chris Parnell suffers a horrendous 11-year stretch behind bars before his release in 1996. However, he tries to escape several times during his incarceration.

Alex Silva becomes involved with a gang who smuggles marijuana from Mexico into the US.

When Kahlilah Saleem meets big-shot music producer Roy her life is completely transformed. She moves from Philadelphia to Miami with her six-year-old daughter, but when Roy offers Kahlilah the chance to travel to Panama to see the Carinval, her hopes are turned upside-down. Roy abandons Kahlilah in Panama with a bag stuffed with eight kilogrammes of pure cocaine.

Zara Whittaker discovers that she is pregnant whilst smuggling cocaine out of Barbados, forcing her to choose between a safe life and the financial gains of being a drug smuggler.