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Sep 2024
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The Peru Two | Partners in Crime | 1

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Michaella and Melissa are just two young women on holiday in Peru. Or that’s what they want you to think. In reality, they’ve been recruited to smuggle £1.5 million worth of cocaine into Europe. And they’re woefully unprepared. In this four-part series, Matt Forde and Alice Levine learn how a chance meeting with a bronzed stranger in Ibiza brought the girls together for a haphazard mission that would see them forever dubbed ‘The Peru Two’.

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