Peru Two drugs mule Michaella McCollum hits beach in skimpy gym wear during Spain return
CONVICTED drug smuggler Michaella McCollum has once again been photographed soaking up the sun in Marbella as she makes the most of life after prison.
The former prisoner has returned to Spain for a holiday - the very place where she agreed to traffic cocaine in 2013.
Now aged 24, she was jailed in Peru alongside Melissa Reid, as they tried to smuggle £1.5 million of the Class A drug out of Spain.
McCollum, from County Tyrone in Northern Ireland was spotted browsing shops and sipping a cold drink as she donned gym wear during a stroll in town.
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Peru Two smuggler Michaella McCollum relaxes in Spain
Please know I truly appreciate each one who cared and had my back.
The latest pictures come the same week images of her posing in a bikini on a Costa del Sol beach emerged.
Earlier this month, she took to Facebook to thank "everyone who has supported myself and my family through these past few years".
Her post read: “Please know I truly appreciate each one who cared and had my back.”
She was was spotted browsing the shops
“Thank you for all the sweet messages I have not got reading them all just yet or got a chance to reply to them but I will definitely make a good attempt to get back to you all.
“It has been a long ride to get where I am today but it just shows that when we fight hard enough for something we can achieve it.
“Something to have in mind when one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
Michaella McCollum was photographed soaking up the sun in Marbella
McCollum returned home after her jail stint in August last year following a deal with Peruvian authorities.
She and her accomplice Reid had been sentenced to six years and eight months in prison after admitting trying to smuggle the drug out of Spain.
The pictures were taken on Michaella McCollum's return to Spain
The duo initially protested their innocence, after being found with 11kg of cocaine hidden inside food packages in their luggage.
McCollum was release on parole last March, after serving less than half her sentence - she remained in Peru for a period of time, carrying out voluntary work.
Reid was released in June, flying back to Scotland shortly after.