‘Cocaine Cassie’ Sainsbury has shared an emotional social media post on the seventh anniversary of her arrest in a Colombian airport.
Sainsbury, now 29 and living in Adelaide, shared a video of herself with tears running down her face with the caption: ‘Definitely not my fav time of the year. Seven Easters later and it still feels like yesterday’.
The then-22-year-old was arrested at El Dorado International Airport in Bogota just days before Easter 2017 with 5.8kgs of cocaine inside 18 pairs of boxed headphones.
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Cassie Sainsbury shared an emotional Instagram post on her seventh Easter out of jail. She served nearly three years of a six-year sentence at a notorious Columbian jail
She was given the nickname ‘Cocaine Cassie’ in media coverage as she served nearly three years of a six-year sentence at the notorious Colombian El Buen Pastor prison.
Sainsbury was released from jail during a humanitarian decree issued amid the Covid pandemic, which allowed 4000 prisoners to be released into at-home detention.
She returned to Adelaide in August 2022.
Speaking to Fitzy & Wippa with Kate Ritchie last year, Sainsbury revealed she was frequently attacked while in prison.
‘I had a lot of beatings. I got beaten up a lot. I got stabbed. I got two stab marks on my arms where I was stabbed. I went through a lot of things that I wouldn’t wish on anyone ever,’ she said.
‘Obviously being the gringa (a Spanish slur meaning a foreign woman) in a Spanish prison, it just brings that attention of you know, rich white girl. Need to, I guess bully her down until that’s it.’
Now back in , Sainsbury has continued to maintain a social media presence, and sells exercise programs.
In 2023, she appeared on reality TV show SAS , however quit on the second episode.
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Sainsbury was released from jail during a humanitarian decree issued amid the Covid pandemic, which allowed 4000 prisoners to be released into at-home detention
Speaking to The Daily Telegraph following her exit from the show, Sainsbury said she’s struggled to find work since returning to .
‘I’ve applied for anything and everything – gym work, admin, hospitality and cleaning. It always comes up with, not likely to proceed,’ she said.
‘I don’t want special treatment, I don’t want to be in the spotlight, I just want a normal life – a nine to five job, an eight to six job, just an everyday job but I keep getting rejected.’
However, Sainsbury has found love with wife Tatiana, who is an IT technician.
The couple met in a Colombian nightclub in 2021 and were married in a beachside ceremony in Colombia in early 2022.