Lawyer for Guyanese being held in Ecuador tried to buy her out of jail

Teffiny Onika Smith

The lawyer hired by Teffiny Onika Smith, the Guyanese woman who has been held in jail in Ecuador for drug trafficking for almost a year without a trial, did nothing to prove her innocence and instead tried to bribe members of the justice system, a source familiar with the case has said.

This newspaper was told that Smith, a mother of four last known to be living at a Lamaha Springs address, was arrested on June 11, last year, at the airport in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where officials found two kilogrammes