Melissa Reid heads to work at her new job in Glasgow
She recently confounded her critics by landing a charity job at Citizens Advice.
And ‘Peru Two’ drugs mule Melissa Reid, 23, appears to be firmly on the straight and narrow after she was spotted leaving her new office in Glasgow today.
Strolling through the city centre in a denim jacket and espadrilles, clutching a lunch box, she was barely recognisable from the woman who won notoriety after she was pictured being apprehended at Lima Airport in 2013.
Melissa applied for a job at the charity after she was released from the South American jail last June.
It comes after Reid and accomplice Michaella McCollum flew home amid a torrent of publicity over their foiled plot to smuggle cocaine worth around £1.5 million out Peru.
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Fresh start: ‘Peru Two’ drugs mule Melissa Reid, 23, appears to be firmly on the straight and narrow after she was spotted leaving her new office in Glasgow today
While Reid has taken on the new role, the same can’t be said about McCollum, 24, who has been accused of capitalising on the pair’s notoriety with a rumoured TV show in the works.
‘Melissa has been keeping her head down. She’s landed a role with a charity and is living a normal life,’ a source recently told The Sun.
‘She’d much rather be doing that than posing in a bikini or appearing on telly like Michaella seems intent on doing.
‘It looks as if she has left her old ways behind and is trying to give something back to the community.’
Melissa, 23, was barely recognisable from the woman who won notoriety after she was pictured being apprehended at Lima Airport in 2013
The former jailbird strolls through the city centre in a denim jacket and espadrilles, clutching a lunch box
Moving on: While Reid has taken on the new role, the same can’t be said about McCollum, 24, who has been accused of capitalising on the pair’s notoriety with a rumoured TV show
Twenty-three-year-old Redit was also carrying a large black rucksack to complete her laid-back summery look
While her friend has been job-hunting Michaella has been pictured enjoying a series of sun-kissed holidays in Marbella and Ibiza.
Reid and McCollum met in Ibiza in 2013 where they were employed by a drug-dealing gang.
Reid previously told the Mail on Sunday: ‘I was taking drugs – ecstasy, ketamine and cocaine – and on a downward spiral and it wasn’t going to end well.’
They were sentenced to spend six years and eight months inside a grim jail in Lima, after they were caught trying to smuggle the huge quantity of cocaine.
Putting the past behind her: Reid and Michaella McCollum flew home amid a torrent of publicity over their foiled plot to smuggle cocaine worth around £1.5 million out Peru
Worlds apart: While her friend has been job-hunting Michaella has been pictured enjoying a series of sun-kissed holidays in Marbella and Ibiza
New beginning: Reid previously told the Mail on Sunday: ‘I was taking drugs – ecstasy, ketamine and cocaine – and on a downward spiral and it wasn’t going to end well’
Clutching a red lunch box and casually dressed in a summer dress and denim jacket, Reid barely drew a glance from passersby as she strolled through Glasgow on Monday
However, Reid only served half of her sentence and was released last June.
When she returned to Scotland, she said: ‘I regret what I did and I don’t want to make any excuses.
‘I’m embarrassed and ashamed and sorry and I want people to know that. I can’t sit here and say I made a mistake… I knew what I was doing. I made a conscious decision to do it and no one forced me.
Reid has previously said: ‘I never worried about being caught. I never really thought about what I was doing. I think I wanted to be this big person that I’m not’
Reid and McCollum were sentenced to spend six years and eight months inside a grim jail in Lima, after they were caught trying to smuggle the huge quantity of cocaine
A source recently said of Reid: ‘It looks as if she has left her old ways behind and is trying to give something back to the community’
‘I was taking drugs – ecstasy, ketamine and cocaine – and on a downward spiral and it wasn’t going to end well. I honestly think that if I had carried on the way I was going I would be dead right now.
‘I never worried about being caught. I never really thought about what I was doing. I think I wanted to be this big person that I’m not.’
She also revealed that she lied to police, saying armed gangsters had forced her to carry cocaine – when in fact she had willingly smuggled the drugs not only for £4,000 payment, but also because she wanted to be able to ‘boast’ about it.
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