Cocaine teenagers jailed in Ghana

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Yasemin Vatansever and Yatunde Diya, both 16, were sentenced by a court in the capital, Accra.

Because they have been in prison since first being arrested last July they have less than three months of the sentence to complete.

The girls, from London, were held on July 2 at Accra's airport after anti-drugs officers found 13lbs of cocaine in two laptop bags they were carrying as they boarded a flight to Britain.

A spokesman for the Ghana narcotics board said the girls will be released on April 18.

He added: "The girls get a second chance not to repeat what they did. The message is clear to everybody. Once you do it and get caught you will pay for it."

He said they will serve the remainder of their sentences at a juvenile detention centre in Accra.

Asked if the girls might be sent home to England to serve out their time, a British High Commission spokesman said such a move would not make sense.

"The crime was committed here, the trial was held here, and that's it," he said.

The head of the girls' legal team had previously said they planned to appeal against the conviction.