COLOMBIA – The fiancé of accused drug mule Cassandra Sainsbury has fled Colombia ahead of an explosive interview to be aired on Seven’s Sunday Night. Lawyers for the Australian prisoner tried to stop the interview from being shown, but late Sunday afternoon their injunction application made to the Supreme Court was dismissed.

As lawyers fight for Cassie Sainsbury in Colombia, it was an advertisement for Seven’s Sunday Night programme that ignited her legal team back home – specifically, comments from the alleged drug mule herself. Her lawyers argued comments made by Ms Sainsbury would jeopardise not only her life, but also her family’s. The 22-year-old South Australian’s lawyers also tried to suppress comments made in phone conversations with fiancé Scott Broadbridge, who was also interviewed by Sunday Night.

Details of Ms Sainsbury’s comments were so sensitive that Justice John Sackar closed the court so arguments could be made in private. He said if there was even a shred of suggestion airing the material would endanger her life, he would shut it down. He did not. “I propose to dismiss the application,” the judge ruled. Scott Broadbridge left Colombia on Sunday fearing for his life while fleeing a country that has reportedly identified him as a person of interest in his fiancée’s drugs case. (Yahoo7)[+]