Headline: 30 months for teenage drug smuggler. Source: Evening Standard (London) 21 June 2002, at: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/top_story.html?in_review_id=61986 9&in_review_text_id=589728
A teenage girl given a 30-month sentence for drug smuggling kept a diary detailing her dreams of love and making a fortune as a courier. The Swedish 15-year-old, from Uppsala, near Stockholm, was arrested as she came through Manchester Airport on April 11, having flown in from Bombay. The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty at Manchester Youth Court to importation of 646 grammes of the Class A drug diamorphine - heroin - and was sentenced to 30 months in youth custody. She had been persuaded to act as a courier by "Henry", a 23-year-old Nigerian, who she described in her diary as her "boyfriend", the court heard. It was in this diary that details of her plans to "never have to work in her entire life" were revealed. Brian Cummings, prosecuting, said the girl wrote about the fees she would earn from the "mafia" in India and described her feelings for Henry, whom she had just met. While waiting for her connecting flight from Bombay to Manchester via Zurich she wrote: "Me and Henry will make big money from that one. I miss him like mad". The couple met in September last year after a plan to open a restaurant in Goa with her mother was thrown into disarray by the September 11 terrorist attacks. Peter Wetherby, defending, said "Henry" had dubious connections and had taken advantage of his young client. He said: "She was clearly besotted with Henry and a young, honest and decent girl fell for the lure of romance, easy money and worldwide travel. She did not have a genuine contemplation of the seriousness of it all." =========================== The tabloids tomorrow are likely to carry far more lurid details. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet =================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
