34 Stories in the news Read and listen to part 1 of some stories found in newspapers. Do you believe everything you read in the newspaper? Here are a number of news articles. Some of them are funny, some are strange, some illustrate stupidity and some greed. They are all interesting, but are they true? A backpacker from Birmingham Diana Green, a 20-year-old backpacker from Birmingham in England was given a 10-year prison sentence yesterday for smuggling drugs out of India. When the sentence was passed she broke down and cried. She claimed she had been tricked into smuggling 11 kilos of cannabis in her suitcase. An Israeli man, who she claimed had asked her to carry the suitcase, was freed because of lack of evidence. She was arrested four years ago at Bombay airport when cannabis was found in a secret compartment in her suitcase. She claimed she had no idea that the drugs were there. She has already spent four years in a hellhole of an Indian prison awaiting trial. She hopes she will be allowed to serve the rest of her sentence in Britain. 4 06425 34 Fréttir Fréttir Trúir þú öllu sem þú lest í blöðunum? Í þessum kafla eru nokkrar blaðagreinar Sumar eru fyndnar, sumar eru furðulegar, sumar lýsa heimsku og sumar græðgi Þær eru allar áhugaverðar, en eru þær sannar? Bakpokaferðamaður frá Birmingham Diane Green, 20 ára gamall bakpokaferðalangur frá Birmingham á Englandi, var í gær dæmd í 10 ára fangelsi fyrir að hafa smyglað eiturlyfjum frá Indlandi Þegar dómurinn var kveðinn upp brotnaði hún saman og grét Hún hélt því fram að hún hefði verið plötuð til þess að smygla 11 kílóum af kannabis í ferðatösku Hún fullyrti að ókunnur maður hefði beðið hana að halda á töskunni Konan var látin laus vegna skorts á sönnunargögnum Diane var handtekin á flugvellinum í Bombay fyrir fjórum árum þegar eiturlyfin fundust í leynihólfi í töskunni Hún sagði að hún hefði enga hugmynd um hvernig efnin komust í töskuna
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