#337. Tenerife Drug Mule Nightmares in World’s Most Dangerous Prison - Terry Daniels

Dodge Woodall

Eventful, True Crime, Risk, Interviews, Crime, Events, Entrepreneurship, Festivals, Sports, Life Story, Entrepreneur, Roger Woodall, Start Ups, Society & Culture, Military, Business

5 • 857 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Terry Daniels tells the unbelievable story of how a night out in Tenerife turned into a 10-year cocaine sentence, corrupt cops, and a fight for survival she never saw coming. She opens up about the gun held to her head, the brutality inside Spanish prisons, and the paramilitary raid in Northern Ireland that nearly destroyed her life. Terry also reveals the escape attempts, the friendships that saved her, and the long road home after years on the run.

This is the eventful life of Ms Terry Daniels.

YouTube: Dodge Woodall

Instagram: @Dodge.Woodall

Website: DodgeWoodall.com

TikTok: @DodgeWoodall

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	So what happened in 1997?
0:02.0	You're really not going to believe what I'm going to tell you at all.
0:06.0	My story is, yes, it's unbelievable.
0:10.0	I moved to Tenerife in 1996.
0:13.0	One of the bloats that I sort of befriended was Antonio,
0:16.0	but he offered me to go on holiday to Brazil.
0:19.0	Little old me being naive and stupid, oh yeah, I'll come
0:21.6	with you. Coming back through the airport, he had four kilos of cocaine in a suitcase. Next thing I know,
0:26.4	they busted it open. There's cocaine flying everywhere and then they put a gun to my head.
0:31.5	So then what happened? Then I moved to Northern Ireland. My doors got knocked. Outside,
0:36.7	there's the police and the army and they found
0:40.3	in my cupboard, a sawmuff shotgun, a pipe bomb and ammunition. So here we go. I'm looking at eight-year terrorism charge.
0:46.3	I was sent to McGabby prison. These girls are violent and most afternoons, they say the table and chairs were going.
0:52.3	Did you ever think about escaping?
0:54.4	Yeah.
0:56.4	Yeah. Believe me, I nearly ran.
0:57.5	It was close.
0:58.7	Why didn't you run?
1:03.9	Welcome to the Eventful Lives podcast.
1:06.6	I'm your host Dodge and I'm the founder of Bournemouth Sevens,
1:08.4	the world's largest sport at music festival.
1:11.5	On this podcast, I speak to proper characters of all lived eventful lives. Do us a favour and hit that follow button and be sure to check us out on YouTube,
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 25 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dodge Woodall, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Dodge Woodall and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.