Footage obtained by The Mail on Sunday appears to show the moment Michaella McCollum Connolly and Melissa Reid left their hotel with the drugs for the airport in Peru. The CCTV images show two women taking bags from the hotel and putting them into a taxi, while being minded by two men. The video was recorded on August 6 at about 6am, just hours before Miss McCollum and Miss Reid were arrested at Lima airport. Crucial: This unseen footage shows two women accompanied by two men, carrying suitcases from their hotel to a waiting taxi. Police say this image could be pivotal to the outcome of the case . Questioning: The never-before-seen footage is revealed as Melissa Reid (left) and Michaela Connolly's (right) full statements have been published by the Mail on Sunday . Whereabouts: The black and white footage shows the women move their bags at 6am on the morning they were arrested. It is thought they were moving luggage into the taxi which brought them to Lima airport . The Mail on Sunday obtained the footage from a street camera run by Lima’s neighbourhood watch service. A . source for the city’s prosecution team said: ‘This video could prove to . be hugely important. We will examine it carefully and try to track the . figures keeping an eye on the girls as they load up the taxi.’ Following . the women’s arrest, police seized footage from the Hotel Colonial San . Agustin, where they were staying but overlooked this street camera . video. The unseen footage comes a week after the Mail on Sunday obtained video that is thought to show Michaella McCollum Connolly taking 11kg of cocaine to her hotel. Wearing . a long black skirt and with her black hair tied up, the CCTV footage . shows a woman walking back from a pizza parlour carrying a large bag. The . footage was recorded on August 5 at midday – 18 hours before the women . are thought to be seen moving their suitcases from their hotel to a . taxi. The grainy pictures . have been revealed nearly three weeks after Michaella McCollum Connolly . and Melissa Reid were caught carrying £1.5 million of cocaine. Holiday: The girls, pictured in Ibiza, were working in bars on the party island before they travelled to Peru . Collection: This CCTV footage, released last week, allegedly shows Michaella walking walking back to the hotel after collecting the drugs . Accused of trafficking drugs out of Peru, the two women, both 20, face sentences of up to 15 years. In the meantime, they are already experiencing the harsh realities of a Peruvian prison, awaiting trial. Ten . days after their arrest, the two young women each spent nearly eight . hours at the Dirandro police station in Lima making statements. In . them, they chronicled all they say happened from leaving Britain in . June, full of youthful expectation about a working holiday in Ibiza, to . the moment they were arrested in South America. The . statements were made separately before the chief prosecutor, the police . officer in charge of the case, the women’s lawyers and members of their . families. Transporting: The 20-year-old is seen striding ahead in footage that the Mail on Sunday handed over to the police . 'Peru Two': Michaella McCollum Connolly (left) and Melissa Reid (right) have been warned they will spend up to the next three years at the Fatima de Virgen prison . In a police . interview, the women said that they were called on a Blackberry phone . given to them by men in Ibiza and told to go to the pizza parlour next . to the hotel. After this . newspaper handed the footage of the 20-year-old carrying a bag from the . pizza parlour to the city’s prosecutors yesterday they said it could . form an important part of their case. A source said: ‘This video could prove to be hugely important in the girls’ case. ‘We . will examine it carefully and try to track the movements of the figures . who are keeping an eye on the girls as they load up the taxi.’ Police have already seized CCTV footage from the Colonial San Agustin hotel. But it appears they overlooked the video shot from the street camera outside the hotel. Conditions: The women face spending up to three years in the notorious Fatima de Virgen prison where according to former inmates, bullying and prostitution is rife .
Video obtained by Mail on Sunday shows girls take bags from their hotel .
Image taken at 6am thought to be of women travelling to Lima airport .
Footage outside Hotel Colonial San Agustin is said to be pivotal to outcome of the case .
Unseen video comes as Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum Connolly's full statement has been revealed .
British women insist they were forced to collect and transport drugs .
Footage obtained by The Mail on Sunday appears to show the moment Michaella McCollum Connolly and Melissa Reid left their hotel with the drugs for the airport in Peru. The CCTV images show two women taking bags from the hotel and putting them into a taxi, while being minded by two men. The video was recorded on August 6 at about 6am, just hours before Miss McCollum and Miss Reid were arrested at Lima airport. Crucial: This unseen footage shows two women accompanied by two men, carrying suitcases from their hotel to a waiting taxi. Police say this image could be pivotal to the outcome of the case . Questioning: The never-before-seen footage is revealed as Melissa Reid (left) and Michaela Connolly's (right) full statements have been published by the Mail on Sunday . Whereabouts: The black and white footage shows the women move their bags at 6am on the morning they were arrested. It is thought they were moving luggage into the taxi which brought them to Lima airport . The Mail on Sunday obtained the footage from a street camera run by Lima’s neighbourhood watch service. A . source for the city’s prosecution team said: ‘This video could prove to . be hugely important. We will examine it carefully and try to track the . figures keeping an eye on the girls as they load up the taxi.’ Following . the women’s arrest, police seized footage from the Hotel Colonial San . Agustin, where they were staying but overlooked this street camera . video. The unseen footage comes a week after the Mail on Sunday obtained video that is thought to show Michaella McCollum Connolly taking 11kg of cocaine to her hotel. Wearing . a long black skirt and with her black hair tied up, the CCTV footage . shows a woman walking back from a pizza parlour carrying a large bag. The . footage was recorded on August 5 at midday – 18 hours before the women . are thought to be seen moving their suitcases from their hotel to a . taxi. The grainy pictures . have been revealed nearly three weeks after Michaella McCollum Connolly . and Melissa Reid were caught carrying £1.5 million of cocaine. Holiday: The girls, pictured in Ibiza, were working in bars on the party island before they travelled to Peru . Collection: This CCTV footage, released last week, allegedly shows Michaella walking walking back to the hotel after collecting the drugs . Accused of trafficking drugs out of Peru, the two women, both 20, face sentences of up to 15 years. In the meantime, they are already experiencing the harsh realities of a Peruvian prison, awaiting trial. Ten . days after their arrest, the two young women each spent nearly eight . hours at the Dirandro police station in Lima making statements. In . them, they chronicled all they say happened from leaving Britain in . June, full of youthful expectation about a working holiday in Ibiza, to . the moment they were arrested in South America. The . statements were made separately before the chief prosecutor, the police . officer in charge of the case, the women’s lawyers and members of their . families. Transporting: The 20-year-old is seen striding ahead in footage that the Mail on Sunday handed over to the police . 'Peru Two': Michaella McCollum Connolly (left) and Melissa Reid (right) have been warned they will spend up to the next three years at the Fatima de Virgen prison . In a police . interview, the women said that they were called on a Blackberry phone . given to them by men in Ibiza and told to go to the pizza parlour next . to the hotel. After this . newspaper handed the footage of the 20-year-old carrying a bag from the . pizza parlour to the city’s prosecutors yesterday they said it could . form an important part of their case. A source said: ‘This video could prove to be hugely important in the girls’ case. ‘We . will examine it carefully and try to track the movements of the figures . who are keeping an eye on the girls as they load up the taxi.’ Police have already seized CCTV footage from the Colonial San Agustin hotel. But it appears they overlooked the video shot from the street camera outside the hotel. Conditions: The women face spending up to three years in the notorious Fatima de Virgen prison where according to former inmates, bullying and prostitution is rife .
Footage obtained by The Mail on Sunday appears to Melissa Reid left their hotel with the drugs for the outcome of the case . Questioning: The never-before-seen footage is revealed as Melissa Reid (left) and Michaela Connolly's (right) full shows the women move their bags at 6am on the morning they were arrested. It is thought they them to Lima airport . The Mail on Sunday police seized footage from the Hotel Colonial San video that is thought to show Michaella McCollum seized CCTV footage from the Colonial San Agustin