Drug smuggling teenager jailed
Published Date:
15 May 2008
A TEENAGER caught trying to smuggle £250,000 of cocaine from Gambia has been jailed for five-and-a-half years.
Carly Plunkett, 19, of Eastbourne, was arrested at Gatwick Airport, with 1.5kg of the Class A drug in her suitcase. She was jailed at Croydon Crown Court.
Her father John claimed she was groomed by drug smugglers before being sent to West Africa to bring back cocaine.
He had thought she was on holiday in Tenerife.
Paul Stevenson, HM Revenue and Customs senior business manager at Gatwick, said, "This should be a warning to anyone that drugs destroy lives; whether you are a user or a trafficker you are gambling with your life if you meddle in the drug trade.
"The use of such young people in the smuggling of drugs demonstrates the ruthless nature of those criminal gangs involved in the illegal narcotics trade.
"These gangs are merciless and are more than happy to sacrifice the lives and liberty of young people in order to enrich themselves, with total disregard for the misery they cause."
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Last Updated:
15 May 2008 4:58 PM
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