Pardoned women to get warm welcome from Fleet Street and West Midlands drugs squad

Wednesday 21 July 1993 23:02 BST

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Patricia Cahill, 20, being escorted to a police station by a British embassy official and prison warder after her release from jail in Bangkok yesterday following a pardon from the King of Thailand. Cahill and her fellow heroin smuggler, Karyn Smith, 22, are due to land at Heathrow this morning. Bundled home, page 3; Leading article, page 23.

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