I was locked up ‘like an animal’ in prison after £1m of heroin was found in my bag – I thought I’d die, says model
A MODEL has told how she was “locked up ‘like an animal” in a Pakistan prison after £1million of heroin was found in her bag.
Tereza Hluskova, 27, was arrested at Lahore’s AIIama IqbaI International airport while en route to Ireland via Dubai.
Customs officials found a whopping 8.5kg of heroin inside her suitcase and the then-22-year-old was hauled off in handcuffs.
She pleaded her innocence and insisted she was visiting the country to work as a model, saying someone had slipped the Class A drugs in her luggage without her knowledge.
But Tereza was ultimately convicted and sentenced to eight years and eight months in prison in January 2018.
After a series of appeals, the model was eventually released in 2022, having served just four years of her sentence.
She has now lifted the lid on her hellish experience in the Pakistan prison, detailing the “horrors she went through” and her fears the police were “going to kill her.”
Tereza has shared a series of “no holds barred” videos online explaining how she survived being beaten and “humiliated” on a daily basis, the Daily Mail reports.
She claims she was “lured” to the country under the guise of a modelling job while working as a private escort.
Tereza said: “I thought they were going to kill me.
“I admire the person who comes out of prison and is completely fine.
“I still have it [the experience] inside me. Now and then I remember how they woke us up, how the girls beat us and how cold it was there.
“I had no medical help, I had to help myself, I was crying. ‘I’ll have it in me for the rest of my life.
“You could have had a headache or tuberculosis. The summer was quiet, hot as in a sauna, so I soon sweated out the flu.
“But in winter? I was not warmed by a blanket, nor a sweatshirt, nor hot tea. And on top of that a cold and a cough.
“Sometimes I close my eyes and feel what’s there again. How terrible we were.
“No family, locked up like animals, humiliation. And I try to shake such thoughts out of my head right away, but sometimes it doesn’t go away right away.”
The blonde dropped out of school in her hometown of Uherské Hradiště in the Czech Republic and began working in a cafe – where she was offered a job as a sex worker.
As the “conditions seemed favourable”, she agreed and was flown to Belgium where she was taken “under the wing of a woman called Sara.”
Tereza said: “She first wanted to check whether I was suitable for the job.
“She told me to go and have sex with her husband to check if I’m worth it or not. And so I did what I had to do.”
To “cope” with her clients and “release her inhibitions and fear”, the model turned to drugs and alcohol and adopted the name Jennifer.
A prostitute doesn’t enjoy sex, because in order to survive, she has to switch to robot mode and work.
Tereza Hluskova
She alleged she was plied with substances by Sara, allowing her to “learn to shut down emotions during intimate moments with clients.”
Tereza continued: “I felt almost nothing at all. Maybe the problem was that I drank a lot.
“I had plum juice in one hand, vodka in the other, and in two hours I was lying there and they had to resuscitate me.
“A prostitute doesn’t enjoy sex, because in order to survive, she has to switch to robot mode and work.”
She shared the gory details of a few “brutal” encounters, but admitted her memory was hazy because she was “off her head” on drugs and booze.
Tereza said she was then taken to a Belgian bar where escorts went to meet their clients, while donning a black mini dress and high heels.
She recalled: “I had a meeting there with a man named Ludo, all I knew was that he had red glasses and a moustache.
“When I reached for the doorknob, I thought I was going to throw up or run away. But I said no. I was already in it so I entered.”
Her work as an escort soon turned nasty, seeing her endure a savage beating from a Turkish client who tried to suffocate her after sex.
Tereza said she took “revenge” by telling her pimp what had happened, adding: “I told the guys how he treated me, and then they gave him hell.”
She was then told she was being sent to the UK to do some erotic photo modelling and pick up a visa before flying to Pakistan.
Upon her arrival in Manchester, she stayed with a man from Pakistan who was arranging her travel documents who informed her she would be travelling to the country via France.
‘I DIDN’T KNOW’
The model said: “Now I wonder how I could have been so stupid that there were such detours when it was supposed to be a direct flight from England to Pakistan. But I didn’t realize it at the time.”
When she finally arrived in the South Asian nation, she was sent to live in a house with no electricity alongside her “keeper” who escorted her from France.
Tereza said: “It was a disaster. Dirt everywhere on the ground, not even sidewalks, but scattered dirt.”
She was taken to a “kind of field where there was only dirt” for a photoshoot and spent two months waiting for the pictures to appear online, but they never did.
Tereza was finally told she could return home and believed the ordeal was over – unaware that her nightmare was only just beginning.
Customs officials pounced her at the airport after finding nearly 9kg of heroin stashed in “statues” in her suitcase as she was trying to board a flight headed for the United Arab Emirates.
Video footage shows officers rummaging through her bags while the model broke down in tears.
She told cops: “They gave me something for luggage, three statues or something. They said it was gifts.
“I didn’t know there was something inside.”
Tereza is now working to rebuild her life, securing a job as a waitress and settling down with a new man.
She promised to continue sharing details of her horror experience in future videos while she tries to come to terms with the ordeal.
“A person who has been in prison for four years has to get used to socialising again,” she added.
Pakistan shares a long porous border with Afghanistan, providing a key drug-smuggling route to Central Asia, Europe and North America.
Drug trafficking is a serious offence in Pakistan and arrests at airports are not uncommon.