Prosecutors have rejected the guilty pleas of two women caught trying to smuggle 11kg of cocaine out of Peru in their luggage.

Michaella McCollum, 20, from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and Melissa Reid, 20, from Glasgow, pleaded guilty on Tuesday behind closed doors when they appeared before a judge in Callao, near the capital Lima.

Prosecutors have asked for more information before accepting their admissions of guilt, which the women hope will reduce their sentences from a minimum eight years down to six years and eight months without the chance of parole.