It's alwalys tricky coming up with an original fancy dress costume for the village fete.
One family, however, appear to have gone with a current affairs theme - dressing up their children as accused British drug mules Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum Connolly.
Dressed in the same outfits, their hair in the same styles, stood with suitcases and holding a sign that says: 'The Peru 2. Drugs is for mugs...' the two young girls look like miniature versions of the girls who await their trial in Peru.
The picture, which has been posted online, appears to have been taken on a green at a village fair. In the background parents and children surround a bouncy castle and other games.
It's not known if the young girls were entered into a fancy dress competition, or if they won, but there's no doubting the resemblance they have to Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum Connolly who claim they were kidnapped and forced to unknowingly smuggle drugs from Peru to Spain.
Up until now Reid, from Glasgow, and McCollum Connolly, from Northern Ireland, have insisted they are innocent. If found guilty, they could be sentenced to 15 years in prison.
However, if they plead guilty, they may get off with only six years and eight months.
On Thursday the girls were moved to the Virgen de Fatima jail, which is surrounded by shanty towns just south of Lima.
The only Western inmates, they will endure a military-style regime alongside 1,000 other female prisoners, including murderers and terrorists.
Reid's father William Reid told the media last week he wants his daughter to plead guilty, work with authorities and tell them everything she knows.
'They were found to have drugs on them. They collected packages which transpired to be drugs. They are going to be guilty of that.
'If that’s the Peruvian law, regardless of the mitigating circumstances, then you are as well pleading guilty rather than defending that to the nth degree and be sitting there with 15 years that you’re trying to appeal and reduce.
‘These girls are young. They may be living in cloud cuckoo land and thinking that magically next week they’re going to go free. If you’re adamant that you’re innocent, you don’t believe that you’re even going to be given a sentence,' he said.
The pair could spend up to three years in jail awaiting trial.
One family, however, appear to have gone with a current affairs theme - dressing up their children as accused British drug mules Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum Connolly.
Dressed in the same outfits, their hair in the same styles, stood with suitcases and holding a sign that says: 'The Peru 2. Drugs is for mugs...' the two young girls look like miniature versions of the girls who await their trial in Peru.
Caused a stir: The photo of two young children
dressed as the accused drug mules Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum
Connolly has gone viral online
The picture, which has been posted online, appears to have been taken on a green at a village fair. In the background parents and children surround a bouncy castle and other games.
It's not known if the young girls were entered into a fancy dress competition, or if they won, but there's no doubting the resemblance they have to Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum Connolly who claim they were kidnapped and forced to unknowingly smuggle drugs from Peru to Spain.
Up until now Reid, from Glasgow, and McCollum Connolly, from Northern Ireland, have insisted they are innocent. If found guilty, they could be sentenced to 15 years in prison.
However, if they plead guilty, they may get off with only six years and eight months.
On Thursday the girls were moved to the Virgen de Fatima jail, which is surrounded by shanty towns just south of Lima.
Irish Michaella McCollum Connolly (L) and
British Melissa Reid (R) were detained allegedly with 11 kilograms of
cocaine on their way to Madrid, Spain, at the international airport
Jorge Chavez in Callao, near Lima, Peru
The only Western inmates, they will endure a military-style regime alongside 1,000 other female prisoners, including murderers and terrorists.
Reid's father William Reid told the media last week he wants his daughter to plead guilty, work with authorities and tell them everything she knows.
'They were found to have drugs on them. They collected packages which transpired to be drugs. They are going to be guilty of that.
'If that’s the Peruvian law, regardless of the mitigating circumstances, then you are as well pleading guilty rather than defending that to the nth degree and be sitting there with 15 years that you’re trying to appeal and reduce.
Cuffed: The pair could spend up to three years in jail in Peru as they await their trial
The father of Melissa Reid, right, has urged her
to plead guilty to avoid up to 15 years in prison if found guilty in a
trial. McCollum Connolly, left, and Reid claim they were abducted by
gun-toting Colombian gangsters in Ibiza who threatened them and their
families if they did not do as they were told
‘These girls are young. They may be living in cloud cuckoo land and thinking that magically next week they’re going to go free. If you’re adamant that you’re innocent, you don’t believe that you’re even going to be given a sentence,' he said.
The pair could spend up to three years in jail awaiting trial.
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