LOCKED UP ABROAD

Locked Up Abroad tells first hand experiences of unsuspecting travelers who embarked on what they thought would be a vacation, only to barely make it home alive.

A holiday in paradise that takes a turn for the worse and ends in a foreign prison cell would be any traveler’s worst nightmare – but for some people, it’s their reality.

Greg was captured by an Islamic terrorist group in the Philippines and endured some unthinkable experiences.

From kidnap and torture to foolish plans to smuggle drugs, this nail-biting series tells the harrowing stories of people who set out hoping for adventure or easy money, only to end up in situations beyond their worst nightmares.

Brendan Cosso and three friends are caught and sent to the notorious Carandiru prison for smuggling cocaine out of Brazil.

From kidnap and torture to foolish plans to smuggle drugs, this nail-biting series tells the harrowing stories of people who set out hoping for adventure or easy money, only to end up in situations beyond their worst nightmares.

Vacations don't always live up to our lofty expectations, and for some they turn into the worst nightmares imaginable.

From kidnap and torture to foolish plans to smuggle drugs, this nail-biting series tells the harrowing stories of people who set out hoping for adventure or easy money, only to end up in situations beyond their worst nightmares.

Lockdown takes viewers inside the closed world of maximum-security U.S. prisons to observe violent clashes, covert rules and secret codes of justice.

From kidnap and torture to foolish plans to smuggle drugs, this nail-biting series tells the harrowing stories of people who set out hoping for adventure or easy money, only to end up in situations beyond their worst nightmares.

Journalists Scott Taylor and Zeynep Tugrul are kidnapped by insurgents who accuse them of being American spies.

Zara would leave England to go to Ecuador to smuggle cocaine back home.

Mark was bitten by the travelling bug when he was 18, enamoured by the places that most people only saw on TV. Then he met Mary and really fell in love. Despite his hard work, the bills were piling up and their debts mounting when Mary’s brother flew in from Taiwan with pockets full of cash and an offer to bail them out. All they needed to do was pick up a package and return with it.

From kidnap and torture to foolish plans to smuggle drugs, this nail-biting series tells the harrowing stories of people who set out hoping for adventure or easy money, only to end up in situations beyond their worst nightmares.

From kidnap and torture to foolish plans to smuggle drugs, this nail-biting series tells the harrowing stories of people who set out hoping for adventure or easy money, only to end up in situations beyond their worst nightmares.

From kidnap and torture to foolish plans to smuggle drugs, this nail-biting series tells the harrowing stories of people who set out hoping for adventure or easy money, only to end up in situations beyond their worst nightmares.

From kidnap and torture to foolish plans to smuggle drugs, this nail-biting series tells the harrowing stories of people who set out hoping for adventure or easy money, only to end up in situations beyond their worst nightmares.

A former trader suffering from thyroid deficiency, Piers Hernu decides to leave England and travel the world in search of sunshine and good times. Out of money in Hong Kong, he agrees to smuggle gold from Hong Kong to Nepal. Piers travels to Nepal, along with three friends, each wearing a vest packed with more than 50 pounds of gold. But on arrival at Nepal, they're arrested by customs officials. They are sentenced to 4 years in jail and suddenly the adventure has turned into a nightmare.

Lucy Baker and Scott Campbell were living their dream. Working little and playing hard in Ibiza for the summer season, neither wanted the party to end so when the party moved on, so did they but it wasn’t long before they were they would become broke. Out of luck and out of money, the offer of the holiday of a lifetime and a healthy reward at the end seemed just too good to be true. All they had to do was bring back a little cannabis into Amsterdam, where was the risk in that?

When Sandra was 25 she left a happy middle class upbringing in Kent and the modest antiques business she’d set up to go on holiday to Thailand for two months. She met Robert Locke, a British traveller and heroin addict, offered to pay her £1,000 plus a flight to Tokyo if she would smuggle into Japan his personal heroin stash. Sandra, still recovering from dengue fever and desperate to keep her travelling lifestyle going, accepted.

When 45 year-old yachtsman Donald MacNeil had a call from two acquaintances offering him a month’s freelance teaching in the Mediterranean he couldn’t believe his luck. But as the month drew to an end, Donald’s suspicions that this trip was not all that it seemed became terrifyingly real. Threatening that there was nowhere to hide should he turn on them, Donald was given a new course – Venezuela, to collect £30 million pounds worth of cocaine.

From kidnap and torture to foolish plans to smuggle drugs, this nail-biting series tells the harrowing stories of people who set out hoping for adventure or easy money, only to end up in situations beyond their worst nightmares.

From kidnap and torture to foolish plans to smuggle drugs, this nail-biting series tells the harrowing stories of people who set out hoping for adventure or easy money, only to end up in situations beyond their worst nightmares.

From kidnap and torture to foolish plans to smuggle drugs, this nail-biting series tells the harrowing stories of people who set out hoping for adventure or easy money, only to end up in situations beyond their worst nightmares.

Locked Up Abroad tells first hand experiences of unsuspecting travelers who embarked on what they thought would be a vacation, only to barely make it home alive.

Locked Up Abroad tells first hand experiences of unsuspecting travelers who embarked on what they thought would be a vacation, only to barely make it home.

Jim and Paul desperately wanted to escape their lives in Leicester, England. But the adventure they craved would soon turn into a nightmare. Jim and Paul had been friends since school, but in 1996, a night out would change their lives forever. Lured by the promise of a vacation abroad and easy money, Jim and Paul agreed to to bring back a package from Venezuela -- a package that turned out to be their ticket to prison.

Two young American women were promised a luxury holiday in Peru in exchange for bringing back cocaine. Instead, they found themselves facing 6 year prison sentences. Go inside their terrifying story and their time in an overcrowded maximum security women’s prison. Then, watch as NGC cameras capture one of the women as she returns to the prison for the first time.

Tim Schrader left Australia to work as an English teacher in Bangkok. He loved the teaching and the nightlife but was struggling financially, so he agreed to participate in deadly a scam.

From kidnap and torture to foolish plans to smuggle drugs, this nail-biting series tells the harrowing stories of people who set out hoping for adventure or easy money, only to end up in situations beyond their worst nightmares.

Michael Morey was a music-loving hippie who fell in love with a woman he met in Trinidad. But when he learned he and his girlfriend were expecting a baby, Michael agreed to smuggle cocaine from Ecuador to Europe for money.

Jackie Nichols was living the dream, in love with her boyfriend until one day he suddenly died in a car accident. An inconvenient situation began years of imprisonment in Japan, a country known for having one of the world's strictest prison systems.

Locked Up Abroad tells first hand experiences of unsuspecting travelers who embarked on what they thought would be a vacation, only to barely make it home alive.

Young American backpacker Mark Wedeven wanted the ultimate adventure: crossing from Panama to Colombia overland through the notorious Darién Gap. He got more than he bargained for when he and his companions were ambushed by murderous paramilitaries.

Locked Up Abroad tells the harrowing stories of people who end up in situations beyond their worst nightmares.

Glen Heggstad, a judo instructor from Palm Springs, decides to take a break from his predictable life and journey through South America on his motorcycle. All goes well until he reaches Colombia. After he leaves Bogota, he runs into a roadblock and is kidnapped by the National Liberation Army, or ELN, who take him hostage. Over the following weeks, he endures interrogations, long marches and beatings, Glen loses 50 pounds.

Locked Up Abroad tells first hand experiences of unsuspecting travelers who embarked on what they thought would be a vacation, only to barely make it home alive.

A freelance journalist is duped into carrying her friend's bag onto a plane which is full of cocaine.

TK White and her girlfriend are sent to Kingston's notorious central jail after attempting to smuggle marijuana.

Major Phil Ashby attempts to disarm child soldiers in Sierra Leone, but he becomes the personal target of an angry rebel warlord.

Clare Matthews, a British woman on extended vacation in Goa, ends up in an Indian prison after her third attempt to mail hashish from Delhi.

Locked Up Abroad tells first hand experiences of unsuspecting travelers who embarked on what they thought would be a vacation, only to barely make it home.

Locked Up Abroad tells first hand experiences of unsuspecting travelers who embarked on what they thought would be a vacation, only to barely make it home.

Jobless Duane Wollum needs money to maintain his party lifestyle and support his daughter. The lure of easy cash leads him to smuggle cocaine from Nicaragua into the U.S. multiple times. At the airport, a routine security check reveals he is concealing a package on his body. Customs agents suspect he is carrying a bomb, and Duane is suddenly surrounded and looking down the barrels of several rifles. When the drugs are discovered, Duane is incarcerated in a hostile environment.

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