DRUGS mule Melissa Reid is set to return to Britain after spending nearly three years in jail in Peru.
The 22-year-old smiled as she arrived at Lima Airport on Tuesday evening with her father, Billy, and British embassy staff, before being whisked through security by Peruvian officials overseeing her deportation.
It is believed she will fly via Amsterdam before arriving in back in the UK a free woman.
Reid, from Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire, was caught with 23-year-old Michaella McCollum, from Dungannon, Co Tyrone, trying to smuggle cocaine worth £1.5 million in mayonnaise bags from Peru to Spain in 2013.
The pair - nicknamed the "Peru Two" - were jailed for six years and eight months after admitting the offence.
However, in May a judge granted Reid's expulsion under an early release scheme for deporting first-time drug offenders.
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