22/06/2016 Reporting Scotland

The convicted drug smuggler Melissa Reid has returned

to Scotland from Peru after being freed from jail in Lima.

The 22-year-old, who's from Lenzie near Glasgow, was expelled under

an early release scheme for first time drug offenders.

She was caught with 11 kilos of cocaine in her luggage in 2013.

Just before 10pm tonight, her plane touched down at Glasgow Airport.

Aileen Clarke now has more on the story.

Her report contains flash photography from the start.

The centre of media attention as she leaves Lima.

Out of jail through an early release scheme

Every step taking her closer to

Leaving her drug smuggling sentence behind her.

Her father, Billy, was in Peru once more but

this time to bring his daughter home.

At the family house, this'll be a much hope for homecoming.

It is almost three years since Melissa

Reid was stopped at Lima airport with that consignment of cocaine.

That is a situation that no parent wants to face.

And this has been a very difficult episode

Mr Reid took part in an anti-drug smuggling film

Laying bear the heartache of the family.

Events such as Christmas are nonexistent for us,

It was in August 2013 that his daughter was stopped with friend

Michaella McCollum from Northern Ireland

with 11 kilos of cocaine in their luggage.

Hidden inside food packets, they were heading for

At first she protested her innocence, saying they were forced

to carry the drugs but they later pled guilty, and receiving a

sentence of six years and eight months.

Today, at home, a range of views on her early release.

Six years should be six years because all it will do is give

people the incentive to think, well, if I

can get three years, it is worth it for the risk.

I hope she has learned her lesson and she makes

up to her parents for all the distress she has caused them.

In 1993, Sandra Gregory from Aberdeenshire was in the headlines

for trying to smuggle heroin out of Bangkok.

She served sentences in Thailand and Britain and using that

experience, she visits schools to educate young women and says

that Melissa Reid needs to come to terms with what she did and move on.

My only advice to her would be to be honest.

Apologise to the people you need to apologise to and maybe use

it for other people, I am getting the truth to be

going around schools so perhaps Melissa can do that

Whatever Melissa Reid decides to do in Scotland, because her crime

was committed abroad, she will have no official criminal record.

Scotland's first ministers past and present

have issued a joint statement backing a Remain vote

But on this final day of campaigning,

Here's our political correspondent, Glenn Campbell.

A late surge of energy in an otherwise lacklustre

A Remain dance at Holyrood, but Vote Leave say it is

too early to party because UK opinion polls are close.

So, on the last day, In campaigners gathered in

Glasgow and a statue of Donald Dewar as his deputy and all of his

successors as first Minister confirm support to remain.

The current first Minister said that leaving the EU would make

I want people to remain in the EU tomorrow

with passion to protect the jobs and investment that come

with being part of the single market, to protect

freedom of travel but also to protect our place in the world.

To remain a country that is outward-looking.

Remain campaigners like the first Minister think that continued

membership of the EU, with access to its single market,

those on the Leave side believe that outside the European Union, the UK,

including Scotland, could trade more freely around the world.

The EU is an important market but not the most

into the single market, we would not have to burden every

single company in Scotland with a regulation that

To give the UK more control over fishing, farming

The EU is a catastrophe, it is undemocratic,

commissioners ruling the bureaucracy, or that has no power,

We are not ruled by Parliament, we are ruled by property.

Fresh from her television clash with Boris

Johnson, a Scottish Tory leader argued this

was not a referendum on border control.

You are more likely to be treated at hospital by

somebody from the EU then be behind them in the queue, you don't solve

Coming out of the EU will damage the economy.

Tomorrow is not the date to cast a protest vote.

In London, a final plea from Labour while on the

doorsteps in former Scottish Labour heartlands, the last push to trade

Whichever side wins, in this referendum the public

If you're thinking Scotland has heard a lot from its politicians

over the past couple of years, you're right.

Voters are being asked to make a choice for the fifth time

With another trip to the ballot box tomorrow, here's our political

correspondent Andrew Kerr with a summary of the main issues

It has been a tough fight with some controversial elements.

The campaign has been characterised by some well-worn arguments.

Those wishing to remain in the EU have focused on the

economy, they say a quarter of a million Scottish jobs are linked

with EU trade and voting to leave, they say,

would be catastrophic for the economy.

Those who wish to leave take the opposite view,

calling the EU's system failing and dysfunctional, saying UK trade

and jobs will thrive after a vote to leave.

You will be familiar with the phrase "Take back control".

The belief is that we will not be able to control our borders

or the level of immigration by staying in the EU and a number of

people coming to the UK is putting a strain

But the Remain camp says immigration is

good for the economy and a new deal means in-work benefits for a new EU

migrant worker will be limited for the first few years.

For us in Scotland, this vote has a constitutional dimension.

The Prime Minister urges vote to Remain to

save the UK, while the First Minister, who wants independence,

backs that vote also, but she has warned that

could be triggered if the rest of the UK votes to leave

However, some who advocate Brexit want Scotland to

remain in the UK while others want the UK out of the EU and

Votes will be cast tomorrow, but as we have seen

in Scotland, it might be up for debate whether a referendum actually

An offshore oil and gas company has announced up to 430

Subsea Seven expects most of them to be from its Aberdeen operations,

It plans to axe 1,200 roles worldwide.

The company is cutting more than ?200 million

from its costs, and taking some ships out

The footballing world is talking about Euro 2016 in France,

including the Scotland manager, Gordon Strachan.

He says his team is better than some of the sides at the finals.

That's even though the Scots didn't qualify.

He's already looking forward to the challenge of reaching

He'd rather be in France, but his team didn't

make it to Euro 2016, so Gordon Strachan was in Aviemore

promoting a novel sport of 'foot golf' and putting a positive spin

on Scotland's absence from the main event.

At that tournament we are as are as good as the ones that are

I know that if we got there, between the fans and

ourselves and the players, we can make it a better tournament than it

The captain of the national team is also doing

homework, this time for Celtic's pre-season match against Leicester.

On our day, we have played Germany and Poland

Ireland and Northern Ireland, we have given them

great games in the last couple of years.

Scotland will have a chance to prove themselves

against two teams who qualified for Euro 2016 when the World Cup

On the whole, I've probably got the best goal of

Maybe Spain, France, Slovakia a few times.

It's going to be a heck of a tournament.

We'll find out how good Scotland are when the Russia 2018 campaign

That's the football, not the foot golf.

Well, It's now time for the weather outlook for tonight and tomorrow.

It has been largely dry so far this evening, especially towards the

south and east, but have been heavy showers across the north and West.

As we head through the night, those showers or is often fade back to the

Western Isles, elsewhere, largely dry with clear spells developing for

central and eastern parts. Low pressure is not far away, but it is

gradually shifting across the country. Heavy downpours across the

south-east of England and there is a Met Office Amber were the in force

as some of the showers could become quite lively over the next few days

and could cause some disruption. But as we head to the cause of the

morning, a good deal of sunshine. One or to by Chris Carter Charles,

but for the most part, largely dry. Tomorrow morning, defined by

weather. Sunshine and temperatures already 14-15d. One or to showers

across the west coast and the north-west as well. Temperatures

towards the north will tend to rise to the low 20s as we head through

the day. A bit of Mr crossed Shetland on the coastal as well. --

mist. The amber Met Office be prepared weather warning in the

foreseeable also see showers across Northern Ireland and western parts

of Scotland, but elsewhere, dry with sunshine. Across Scotland,

temperatures of 20-21d, further south, 20-23dC so warm for all.

Tomorrow evening, decent service polls, clear spells, but those

showers continued towards the north and west and become a bit more

widespread across the West Coast. Thursday into Friday, an area of low

pressure moves across others and with it some further showers. Some

of the showers on Friday could be quite lively across Scotland. Across

the West at first but gradually shifting east as we had through the

day, the risk of thunder and hail mixed in as well, but winds will be

lights but showers slow-moving and temperatures in the hit -- mid to

high teens. Our next update is during Breakfast

at 6:25am tomorrow morning. But from everyone on the late team

here in Glasgow and around