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Jamaican Woman Found With Large Cocaine Stash At Gatwick Airport

Posted: 15/04/2012 07:09 Updated: 15/04/2012 07:45   PA

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Cocaine Siezed Haul Uk Border Force

Cocaine worth almost half a million pounds has been seized at an airport by UK Border Force officers.

Officials working for the UK Border Agency at Gatwick Airport in West Sussex found 12 kilos of the class A drug when they searched a woman travelling from Kingston, Jamaica, with her three children on Friday morning.

Officers found cocaine in a number of items the woman was carrying, including a cosmetic paste, a UK Border Agency spokesman said.

He added that the woman was interviewed and charged with an importation offence. She has been remanded in custody and is awaiting a court appearance, he said.

Ingrid Smith, UK Border Agency assistant director at Gatwick airport, said: "Our officers work 24/7 to keep drugs, smuggled goods and illegal immigrants out of the UK.

"We are working hard to end this terrible trade which can have such a devastating impact on communities across the country."

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Cocaine worth almost half a million pounds has been seized at an airport by UK Border Force officers. Officials working for the UK Border Agency at Gatwick Airport in West Sussex found 12 kilos of ...
Cocaine worth almost half a million pounds has been seized at an airport by UK Border Force officers. Officials working for the UK Border Agency at Gatwick Airport in West Sussex found 12 kilos of ...
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Trenchfoot
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02:55 AM on 04/17/2012
There's plenty more where that came from...
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staridler
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09:31 AM on 04/16/2012
12 kgs @ around 30/50 £ a gram thats a lot of folk taking the stuff. i wonder how much coke is consummed in the uk over an average weekend. perhaps this stuff could be taxed and the administerd to manual workers this would soon bring us out of recession
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Makalha
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10:17 AM on 04/16/2012
Only manual workers ? Are you suggesting that white collar workers already take it lol
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Barbara Longstaff
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08:52 AM on 04/16/2012
They should conviscate the drugs and put her and her children back on the plane to Jamaica, why should we the Tax Payer feed them. With all the drugs she brought in she could cause havoc and not to mention probably a few deaths. I bet she gets off just because she and her kids are black. Another person would spend 3-5 years in prison even more time.
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2ndcornets
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10:38 AM on 04/16/2012
Well said. My view exactly. Let the Jamaicans try her and bang her up if they want to. And her brats should have been sent back where they came from by now, air fares charged to the Jamaican Embassy.
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Barbara Longstaff
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11:02 AM on 04/16/2012
Yes what a good idea charge the Jamaican Embassy for her return fare to Jamaica. It's about time we took a stand against these dealers of drugs, no matter where you come from.
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jenny taylia
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02:35 AM on 04/16/2012
drugs being imported?...from jamica?? well fancy that! id never have thought of trying that 1.
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huffpuff01
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11:01 PM on 04/15/2012
What's the objective of detaining the guilty at the air port? Shouldn't the bigger objective to catch the Mr Bigs? I imagine the woman is one of many in her category. Why wasn't she allowed to go, having taken evidence discreetly, and let her lead the police to Mr Big?
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Edgar H
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12:06 AM on 04/16/2012
Yes she should have been allowed in and followed by Superman who would have rounded up all her accomplices before you put your comic down.

A half million of Coke is a bit much to lose and 'Mr Big' as you term him is deep in the shadows - this woman may have the brains of a mule but she is a major importer of a drug that corrupts children, a drug that destroys lives and families. I have no sympathy for her. If she is not a UK resident, her children should be shipped back or kept in care and she should stand trial and go away for a long time.

But she won't and she'll laugh all the way home.
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huffpuff01
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01:13 PM on 04/16/2012
"But she won't and she'll laugh all the way home." saying that, I hope you're not a prophet. Just for clarity, I'm a Jamaican and I'm against all forms of drugs abuse - even tobacco and alcohol. I'll support any attempt to rid society of drugs abuse. I've seen the damage of drugs use among the various nationalities.

My main concern, however, is the racist tone (not so much yours) that's is central to many of the comments. That doesn't help and reflects irrationality, particularly when there are so many British people travelling and live all over the world!
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jenny taylia
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05:15 AM on 04/16/2012
i doubt 'mr big' would have arrived to meet her, more like 'mr much smaller and also expendable' would have been dispatched to do the honours.
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Clarks0n
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09:51 PM on 04/15/2012
She was later put the to the front of the housing queue.
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Diane Clarke
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09:44 PM on 04/15/2012
A lot of 'RACISM' on here!! I know you can't say these things out loud anymore, nor should you be able to write them......
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gemini13
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07:56 AM on 04/16/2012
not racism, just truth. Open your eyes.
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Barbara Longstaff
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08:54 AM on 04/16/2012
Not racism that word is banded about willy nilly now, we are telling the truth and this is our country and we can say and write what we like we do not need your permission DianeClarke OK.
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mobilemenace
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11:09 AM on 04/16/2012
Absolutely well said!!
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jmmcmkn
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09:43 PM on 04/15/2012
Like it or not this seizure will finaly trigger a Plan B. George Osbourne will now have to relly on a line of Shake and Vac to put the freshness back.
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jmt432p
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09:34 PM on 04/15/2012
Don't feel too bad for the smuggler, she is being shown a catalogue of free houses for her to chose one as we speak.
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huffpuff01
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10:53 PM on 04/15/2012
If only people who are inappropriately qualified to comment objectively above what they are able, would seize the opportunity to occupy one of the many seats in an educational establishment night class, to learn a little bit of what the British has so effectively exported - democracy and education - then they too might avoid giving the impression that evolution leads to backwardness.
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lipgate5
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04:01 AM on 04/16/2012
I have two degrees yet I can't understand a word you say. With gibberish like that, you shuld stand as an MP.
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stevem154
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07:22 AM on 04/16/2012
Reading your comment, leads me to believe that you would probably have been a recipient of what this women was carrying. did you read your comment before posting? I think not.
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Kritikos
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08:39 PM on 04/15/2012
Well the tip of the iceberg was nipped.
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liverbutterfly
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08:27 PM on 04/15/2012
give her nothing get her and her kids out ot our country otherwise its going to cost as much as the drugs was worth in benefits ans solicitors barristers etc.
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arisole
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08:36 PM on 04/15/2012
Well said liverbutterfly. I wonder will she apper on locked up abroad???
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liverbutterfly
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08:51 PM on 04/15/2012
i think she should might put others thinking about it off ,i wont hold my breathe though.One good thing any of her family thinking of following her over to soft touch britain are in for a shock.hahaah
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huffpuff01
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11:09 PM on 04/15/2012
She could be a British citizen! Britain has its criminals, including drug pushers, too. And since Australia doesn't take anyone now unless they can make a positive contribution to their society. Another prison place will most likely be booked. Maybe Britain should learn something from Australia?
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liverbutterfly
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06:40 AM on 04/16/2012
very true.we should take the same stand as australia then we would only have an internal problem like they do.britain doesnt have the same BALLS as australia were to frightened of upsetting the politicaly correct brigade.
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mfa11e
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08:24 PM on 04/15/2012
15 kilo? ,thats nothing to sniff at.Hope the kids get sent back and not put in care here and we end up paying for them.Jamacian customs most probably bribed by the "Mr Big" ,she's just a mule.Still they recon for every one caught 8 to 10 get through
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tommynew
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07:42 PM on 04/15/2012
give her 15 years then deport her the day she compleats her time
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destroyerofplanets
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09:26 PM on 04/15/2012
NO, send her back to Jamaica then serve her time, why the hell should i pay for her to languish in a British prison when O.A.P's are freezing or starving here
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liverbutterfly
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11:36 AM on 04/16/2012
very very true
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Myron Bartlett
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06:49 PM on 04/15/2012
My estranged father went down for the same thing back in 2000. Although he is not jamaican, he did partake in drug smuggling from Jamaica to England. His stupid act detroyed the family. To this day me and my sister keep our distance. People have often asked me why I take such a harsh stance on drugs, when I have not taken any myself. Truth is you don't have to be snorting drugs to have it rob you of something, in my case a parent. I feel for her kids, because they didn't ask for this and the impact it will have on them, will stay with them forever.
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Myron Bartlett
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10:05 PM on 04/15/2012
No parents are English born. Grandparents from Caribbean.
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wAdrian
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10:57 AM on 04/16/2012
Myron Bartlett --Your attitude does you credit
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Mad Mick
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05:28 PM on 04/15/2012
How was it that the drugs were not discovered on her departure from Jamaica?
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newsteps
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09:53 PM on 04/15/2012
It was hidden in sherbert fountains the kids were carrying...
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jenny taylia
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02:37 AM on 04/16/2012
ummmm, maybe cos the security was paid not to look??
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