A British pensioner could face five years in a Chilean jail after smuggling £200,000 of methamphetamine into the country from Mexico. William Eastment, 79, was arrested in May after allegedly trying to enter the South American country with over five kilos of the Class A drug hidden in the false bottom of his suitcase .

The Welsh native, who lives in Milborne Port, Somerset, is being held in Santiago 1 Penitentiary, known as one of Chile's oldest and most crowded prisons, but has insisted it was all a misunderstanding. Mr Eastment told officers that he had been handed the suitcase by a stranger in Mexico shortly before boarding his flight.

Sergio Paredes, head of Santiago airport's anti-narcotics unit, said: "He alleged he had been deceived. He claimed he had been promised a prize o

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