[I] wanted to show I could manage it. I now realise that I put myself at risk and no one would have known where I was if anything had happened to me, but I didn't care at the time." Reid flew first to Majorca where she met McCollum for the first time. After two nights in a house with a group of armed gangsters she moved on to Madrid, where she was told she would be going to Peru instead. "I just went along with it. The guys had guns but I was never threatened," she said