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Barney Davis

Mother ‘treated like drug smuggler’ as she returned to UK after brain surgery

Rachel Pighills sobbing while lying on a stretcher and connected to an oxygen tank inside a warehouse at the docks in Plymouth

(Picture: Supplied)

A husband has spoken of his devastation as his wife was searched for drugs by border patrol officers as she returned to the UK in an ambulance after having life-saving surgery in Spain.

Rachel Pighills, 36, was treated like an “international drug smuggler” according to her husband as her vehicle was stripped down by Border Force guards for 4 hours as she lay connected to an oxygen tank inside a warehouse at the docks in Plymouth.

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