Mickey Bristow

I think it's keen to try and look once again to try and find this plane.

I think it's keen to try and look once again to try and find this plane.

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Well, this is a mother of two, Mary Jane Veloso, who was a domestic helper. She spent some time abroad in Dubai, came back to the Philippines in 2010 and was promised a job in Malaysia. Travelled to Malaysia, the job didn't materialise, but the person who had recruited her said, could you take a suitcase to Indonesia? She did do that.

Well, this is a mother of two, Mary Jane Veloso, who was a domestic helper. She spent some time abroad in Dubai, came back to the Philippines in 2010 and was promised a job in Malaysia. Travelled to Malaysia, the job didn't materialise, but the person who had recruited her said, could you take a suitcase to Indonesia? She did do that.

Unwittingly, she says inside the suitcase was 2.6 kilograms of heroin. She was caught at the airport, put on trial and sentenced to death. And she's been on death row now for nearly 15 years. And there have been some quite close calls in 2015, for example. She was scheduled to be executed by firing squad with eight others. The Philippine government made a last desperate attempt to save her life.

Unwittingly, she says inside the suitcase was 2.6 kilograms of heroin. She was caught at the airport, put on trial and sentenced to death. And she's been on death row now for nearly 15 years. And there have been some quite close calls in 2015, for example. She was scheduled to be executed by firing squad with eight others. The Philippine government made a last desperate attempt to save her life.

She wasn't executed, but that last-minute reprieve came so late that in the Philippines they didn't even know until afterwards when they found out there'd been eight people executed, not nine, that their appeal had been successful. So there's been a real... desperately long campaign to have this woman freed because many in the Philippines thought she'd been duped.

She wasn't executed, but that last-minute reprieve came so late that in the Philippines they didn't even know until afterwards when they found out there'd been eight people executed, not nine, that their appeal had been successful. So there's been a real... desperately long campaign to have this woman freed because many in the Philippines thought she'd been duped.

She is going to get quite a reception. There's a lot of sympathy for her in this case, particularly a trial itself. It was conducted in Indonesian, translated into English. Two languages that she knew nothing of, really. She didn't really speak English. Her language is Tagalog, a Philippine language. It wasn't until a few days after her sentence she actually realised she'd been sentenced to death.

She is going to get quite a reception. There's a lot of sympathy for her in this case, particularly a trial itself. It was conducted in Indonesian, translated into English. Two languages that she knew nothing of, really. She didn't really speak English. Her language is Tagalog, a Philippine language. It wasn't until a few days after her sentence she actually realised she'd been sentenced to death.

A priest had to tell her she hadn't understood the sentence when it was delivered in court. Also because of her situation... Lots of Philippine women go abroad as domestic workers. They work hard. Not always are they treated well. They leave their families back home. So that generated a lot of sympathy as well.

A priest had to tell her she hadn't understood the sentence when it was delivered in court. Also because of her situation... Lots of Philippine women go abroad as domestic workers. They work hard. Not always are they treated well. They leave their families back home. So that generated a lot of sympathy as well.

So there's been an awful lot of sympathy with this case and there'll be an awful lot of people at the airport glad to see her back.

So there's been an awful lot of sympathy with this case and there'll be an awful lot of people at the airport glad to see her back.