By Leon Watson Smiling happily on her wedding day, Nicole Reyes went from the picture of happiness to a gaunt prisoner on the day she was released from a Dominican Republic jail. Today the British mother's family, from Cardiff, south Wales, told of their tearful reunion after they scraped the cash together to allow her to jump bail back to the UK. The 38-year-old was given a 12-year sentence in February for killing her husband Jorge, 37, who died in July 2012. Her family managed to raise the £62,000 needed to pay her bail and four weeks ago the authorities on the Caribbean island freed her without confiscating her passport.
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Nicole Reyes was pictured on the day she was released from prison
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She was convicted for killing husband Jorge in Dominican Republic
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Was sentenced to 12 years behind bars for voluntary manslaughter
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Family in Cardiff raised £62,000 needed for her to be released on bail
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She was freed by authorities but they didn't confiscate her passport
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Has been reunited with her family, meeting her grandson for the first time
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