DRUG SMUGGLER
Mum-of-two, 29, flew to UK from Canada with more than 70kg of drugs in suitcase before being caught at airport
Mum with drug haul went for a wander around Manchester Airport
A MUM-of-two flew to the UK from Canada with more than 70kg of drugs in a suitcase was arrested at the airport.
Alisha Tworuschka flew into Manchester Airport with Jacqueline Desorcy. Tworuschka then left the drug laden luggage with Desorcy to go for a wander.
She returned after hearing an announcement on the PA system. Border Force officers had spotted the women with the large haul of luggage, and decided to question them.
It was the established that the four suitcases contained 72 kilos of cannabis.
The pair, both 29, were both jailed for a year and 10 months. Sending the women down Judge Patrick Field KC said: "What you did was to agree to fly almost halfway around the globe from your homes in British Colombia to Manchester, via Toronto, in order to carry a total of 72 kilos of cannabis.
"You are each intelligent and hard working young women with stable homes and loving families in Canada.
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Your agreement to act as drug couriers amounts in both of your cases as a monumental error of judgement.
That may well have been made through vulnerability or naivety on your part.
“But set against the evidence that I have read and heard about your background, it is very difficult to comprehend how you could make such decisions.
"It may well be that the enticement of a free holiday
in the UK swung the balance.”
