TWO Sussex men imprisoned in a Moroccan jail for allegedly smuggling £7 million in drugs are to receive their first visit in almost 18 months.

Young mum Leanne Saxby will this week fly out to see her father Greg and his cellmate Paul Humble to campaign for their release.

She will be joined by a BBC cameraman who will film her experiences for a documentary to be shown this summer.

Greg, 41, and Paul, 38, both from Eastbourne, were arrested off the Moroccan coast in January, 1998, while delivering boats around the Mediterranean.

Two weeks later they were convicted of smuggling £7 million worth of cannabis in a trial held in a Moroccan court without an interpreter.

The two men now share a squalid cell in the city of Rabat with 15 other foreign prisoners.

But they have maintained their innocence throughout, protesting their plight with a recent 26-day hunger strike.

Leanne, 21, of Hampden Park, Eastbourne, has led the campaign for their release and hopes a trip to Morocco will help.

She said: "I know it will be quite traumatic by I just want to see my dad."

Greg and Paul have been told of Leanne's visit by officials from the British Embassy in Rabat.

The trip has been planned for weeks but has been held up by red tape and an accident which saw the original cameraman to join Leanne on the journey break his arm.

On Sunday the mum, who was pregnant with her now one-year-old son Dylan the last time she saw her father, will finally set off on the long-awaited trip.

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