Post Description

Banged Up Abroad (rebadged as Locked Up Abroad for the National Geographic Channel and Jailed Abroad in India) is a British documentary/docudrama television series that was produced for Channel Five and that premiered in March 2006. Banged Up Abroad features stories of people who have been arrested while travelling abroad, usually for trying to smuggle illegal drugs out of a country and have received lengthy prison sentences as a result.
 A second series was broadcast in 2007, a third series during August and September 2008, and a fourth in October 2008.

Series 1 (2006)
 Episode 1: Costa Rica/Mexico (Scott and Lucy's Story) Scott Campbell and Lucy Baker are British travellers arrested in Mexico. 

Episode 2: Thailand (The Sandra Gregory Story) Sandra Gregory is arrested in Thailand trying to smuggle heroin into Japan. 

Episode 3: Sydney (Mark's Story) Mark is arrested in Sydney after attempting to smuggle cocaine from the U.S. to Australia. 

Episode 4: Venezuela/Margarita Island (Denis and Donald's Story) Donald MacNeil, a yachtsman, is arrested after being pressured to collect an enormous, 30-million-pound shipment of cocaine.