What officers saw on her phone left them no choice but to act
A woman who smuggled nearly 100 pellets of cocaine inside and outside her body inadvertently revealed her crime to Border Force officers by showing them pictures of the drug on her phone. Larissa Lins, 27, was stopped at Manchester Airport after flying in from Brazil. She claimed she had come to the UK to 'research nice places', having previously travelled through France and Portugal.
In total 99 pellets were seized weighing a total of 1.1 kilos with packaging, and 923 grams without. The wholesale price for that amount of the class A drug was estimated to be around £30,000, and the street value was in the region of £72,000, the court heard. Lins was arrested and interviewed in which she admitted swallowing 100 pellets before flying to France, and spent the next three days passing them before returning them to another person.
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