'Drugs mule' in illness scare

'Drugs mule' in illness scare

Ms Angus faces 10 years in jail if convicted

A 22-year-old British woman awaiting trial for drug smuggling in an Indian jail has been taken to hospital with suspected meningitis.

Daisy Angus was arrested with 22 pounds (10 kilgrams) of cannabis in her suitcase and is due in court next Wednesday.

The fitness instructor from Bournemouth, Dorset, had confessed to her father that she knew she was carrying the drugs at Bombay airport.

Ms Angus, who has been held since December, has already had a stay in hospital suffering from malaria.

'Liver problem'

A spokesman for the Foreign Office said Ms Angus had been in hospital several times since 24 January.

He said: "She was complaining of a liver problem and underwent tests for meningitis.

"The tests weren't conclusive and she has had further tests to determine what the problem is."

The spokesman said Ms Angus was now out of hospital but was still waiting for her test results.

Mother Theresa

Ms Angus's friend, 37-year-old Israeli Yoran Kadesh, is also awaiting trial.

The pair face 10 years in jail if convicted.

Ms Angus spent her early childhood in India with her parents, John and Nadine, who worked for five years as volunteers in Mother Teresa's care home in Calcutta.

She was arrested soon after she had left her parents in the north Indian hill station of Dharamsala, where Mr Angus, a travel consultant, had celebrated his 50th birthday.

He and his wife regularly work at Dharamsala helping Tibetan refugees.