A solicitor for the Northern Irish woman suspected of smuggling drugs in Peru has said she was kidnapped and forced to carry cocaine.
Human rights lawyer Peter Madden, representing 20-year-old Michaella McCollum, said she claims to have been threatened by a gang of as many as 14 armed men.
"She was in fact kidnapped, held at gunpoint and forced by threat to obtain and carry drugs back to Lima," said Mr Madden from the Belfast firm Madden and Finucane.
"She wasn't offered any money. She was threatened and held. She is now prepared and ready to give full details to the police who are in a questioning process."
Ms McCollum, a former nightclub host, and co-accused Melissa Reid, 20, from Scotland, were arrested as they tried to board a flight to Madrid on August 6.
Peruvian authorities say they found more than £1.5 million-worth of cocaine stashed in food products in their luggage.
Mr Madden said his client would be protesting her innocence.
"I think there is hope but it depends very much on the prosecuting authorities here as to whether or not they're going to do this in a fair way, because the process here seems to be that once you're charged there's no bail for these type of offences and she will have to go to trial," he said.
Meanwhile in an interview with the Irish Daily Mail newspaper, Ms McCollum told of the moment she realised she was being used as a drugs mule.
"That's when we realised they were drugs," she told the newspaper. "We didn't know before that what they wanted us to take: guns, money, drugs. There was no option. We just wanted to get it over and done with and not be killed."
She spoke of her relief when they were stopped by police at Lima airport.
"We felt relieved too that it was over," she said.