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Daisy Angus was 22 when she was caught with 10kg of cannabis in a secret compartment in her suitcase at Mumbai airport in November 2002.

She was on a round-the-world trip having given up her job as a fitness instructor in Bournemouth, Dorset, and was about to board a plane when she was stopped by customs officers.

She said that she had been given the suitcase after her own bag broke. Her family later said that she knew there was something inside the suitcase, but that she did not know what it contained.

Miss Angus and her family, who live in Bournemouth, have always protested her innocence. But she was jailed for 10 years by a judge in Mumbai Sessions Court on June 21 last year.

Ayaz Khan, her lawyer, said that the High Court in Mumbai reversed the conviction on Thursday and she was released from Byculla District Prison, in Mumbai, on Sunday afternoon.

Her mother Nadine and father John, who died in December last year of leukaemia, made regular trips to visit their daughter during the lengthy trial.

Miss Angus, now 26, was reported to have broken down in tears, protesting her innocence, as she was sentenced.

She was also fined the equivalent of about £2,500 after being found guilty of possession and attempted exportation of 10kg of cannabis.

Miss Angus is reported to have been admitted to hospital on several occasions while in jail after catching malaria and other infections. She is also said to have learnt Hindi while behind bars and taught English to her female inmates.