Bali drug arrests: Rachel Dougall fears she may never see daughter again

“I keep thinking I am at the party. Our friends are around and our
daughter is smiling and happy. The last time I saw her she was screaming and
crying, she wanted her Mummy.

“I am hallucinating, I can’t sleep, I can’t eat, I am losing my marbles,”
she cried, pacing her small cell.

Miss Dougall was dragged kicking and screaming “I’m not sick, I’m not a
criminal” to the hospital wing yesterday according to onlookers.

Her hospital cell is small and dark with only a plastic covered mattress and a
stained plastic covered pillow. She has asked her lawyer to bring baby wipes
because the bathroom is too “rank”to use.

Yesterday she was wearing the same white T-shirt and black footless tights she
was wearing when she was arrested last week and her hand was bandaged with a
drip tube attached.

Miss Dougall said she had been talking to Nandagopal Akkinemi, who had stopped
by with gift bags for the following day’s birthday party, when police
arrived with her partner and his friend, both of whom were upset.

“I was just heading out to a local restaurant at Echo Beach to get some
food for the children and the police arrived and asked if they could come
in. I told them to go ahead and thought nothing of it,” she said.

They searched their villa home throughout the night and eventually ‘found’ two
cigarette packets each containing cocaine. She is particularly distraught at
police claims that one of the packets was discovered in her daughter’s room.

“I had nothing to do with this, it is a set up. The two Marlboro packets
with coke appeared. One in my bag, which was in Kitty’s room.

As if I would have that in my daughter’s room? It wasn’t mine,” she
cried.

She had been “set up”, she said by Lindsay Sandiford, the other
British woman arrested, whom she has known “for a long time.” She
had met up with her recently in Thailand where she had gone to buy leather
for a new shoemaking business she was planning and had believed she was sick
with Dengue Fever. Sandiford had asked her to bring a rug back to Bali in
her luggage “as I was flying business class and she didn’t have enough
baggage allowance. I didn’t bring it but I was worried about her and checked
in with her when she arrived,” she said.

“They [the police] have my voice on the phone – I called Lindsay because
I had wanted to make sure she was OK They have a picture of me talking to
her. So what? I only went to help her, she didn’t know anyone else,”
she explained.

“I have been set up, by this woman Lindsay I just don’t believe what
they are saying; that I could be apart from my baby for a long time,”
she added.

Yesterday Miss Dougall’s lawyer, Mr Suroso, today told The Daily Telegraph Ms
Dougall had been sedated after becoming upset in police custody at being
separated from their daughter.

“She is currently sedated and she is sleeping after receiving an
injection from the doctor,” he said.

“I don’t know exactly what caused this but she has been screaming and
shouting in the cell, calling out for her daughter. She is very upset and
under a lot of pressure because she wants to be with her daughter, she is
only six years old.”

“The doctor has said that she needs treatment, we don’t know for how long,”
he added.

According to police, she had been screaming throughout the night and had
attacked police officers while rejecting local Indonesian food.

“She wants pizza and western food,” a spokesman said today.

“She looked like she was an addict, she was going crazy and fighting with
the police as they tried to put her in the car,” said one observer who
watched as officers tried to transfer her.

Miss Dougall’s friend Nandagopal, known on the island as ‘Gobby,’ is also in
custody after detectives searched the guesthouse room he was sharing with
his British wife Sophie Breeze and their two young children.

They allegedly found 78 grams of the dance drug ecstasy.

Detectives also searched the home of Paul Beales, who has lived in Bali for 15
years and has two children with his Indonesian wife, and are said to have
discovered three grams of cannabis.

At the police headquarters where all five suspects are being held, Ms
Dougall’s partner Julian Ponder said he was well but concerned for her
welfare. “I am fine and yes, I am worried about Rachel,” he told
The Telegraph.

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