AN Oxford don's daughter, serving ten years in an Indian jail for alleged drug smuggling, has described her ordeal in letters home.
Alexia Stewart and her boyfriend, Gary Carter, were jailed for ten years in Goa in December for possessing cannabis.
Alexia's father Philip, director of studies in human sciences at St Anne's College, insists the pair were framed by the police. He and his wife, Lucile, have launched a campaign to try to get them released.
Alexia, 28, shares a cell with up to nine women in a space measuring just six metres by nine. There is no bedding and all she has to eat is rice and gruel.
In letters home, she described her way of life: "I do press-ups and walk round and round the cell in which we are locked for 22 hours a day, but it makes me feel like a caged animal. I shall never visit a zoo again."
Story date: Monday 12 April
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