Cowering on a wafer-thin floor mat in an Indonesian prison, Rachel Dougall could do little but cover her face with her hands as a six-foot woman prisoner viciously punched and kicked her.
The convent school-educated mother-of-one was only days into a year-long sentence connected to a £1.6 million cocaine smuggling ring when she was attacked by one of the 14 inmates crammed into her tiny cell.
It was the first of several savage beatings she endured in Bali’s notorious and squalid Kerobokan Prison, nicknamed ‘Hotel K’, before being released in May this year.
Speaking publicly for the first time since she was deported back to Britain, Dougall, 40, reveals that she suffered a nervous breakdown after being locked up with drug addicts, HIV-positive inmates and sexually aggressive lesbians. She developed scabies and says she nearly died of pneumonia, spending a week in hospital.
It may be hard to sympathise with a woman who was accused of trying to smuggle just over 10lbs of cocaine from Bangkok to Bali – albeit that her sentence was for the minor charge of failing to report a crime.
It’s also true she has a vested interest in speaking out against alleged accomplice Lindsay Sandiford – a 57-year-old Gloucestershire grandmother sentenced to death for smuggling – who Dougall insists was the mastermind behind the plot.
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