Vanessa Goosen’s life and career seemed to be going from strength to strength; she reached the semi-finals of the Miss South Africa modelling competition and had started her own fashion shop. That was all about to change after she agreed to bring four engineering books back from Thailand for a friend in Johannesburg. She's written a book about her ordeal, it's called Drug Muled: Sixteen Years in a Thai Prison: The Vanessa Goosen Story.

Image: Vanessa Goosen
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