Woman caught smuggling £47k of cocaine in vagina

A woman who smuggled £47,000 worth of cocaine in her vagina and was caught at Gatwick Airport in January has been jailed.

Estelle Brett, 20, was returning from St Lucia and was arrested by Border Force officers after swab tests on her luggage produced a positive reaction for cocaine, Crawley News reports.

Brett, from Brockley, refused to have an X-ray but admitted she had swallowed the drugs and waited for them to pass through her system to collect during the flight. She then hid the cocaine in her vagina.

She pleaded guilty to drug importation charges at Croydon Crown Court and was jailed for 32 months.

Carole Upshall, of the Border Force, told International Business Times: "This case shows the lengths smugglers will go to in their attempts to bring Class A drugs into the UK. Those who swallow packages like this are effectively risking their own lives."

Last year, a British woman was arrested at Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires as she tried to board a UK-bound flight with 850g of cocaine concealed in her genitals.

The woman was remanded in custody at a women's prison in Argentina.

The spokesman for Argentina's Ministry of Security said that the drugs, worth £100,000, had been "packed tightly into a barrel-shaped object."

The spokesperson added: "It's not the first time we've stopped a woman carrying drugs stuffed inside their private parts.

"The cocaine she was carrying would probably have fetched around £100,000 in Britain if it had been sold in small amounts."

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