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Kiwi drug mule horror SHARON ’S PRISON HELL HITS SCREENS

‘I didn’t come back from prison hating men or the internet’

It’s been 10 years since Kiwi grandmother Sharon Armstrong made headlines around the world for falling victim to an elaborate romance scam that saw her imprisoned in Argentina.

Tricked into believing she was transporting top-secret documents for “Frank”, a man she’d fallen in love with online, Sharon was arrested as she attempted to board a flight from Buenos Aires to London with 5kg of cocaine hidden in the lining of her suitcase.

Now 63 and, based on her story, which screens Monday, March 15.

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