A South African cocaine smuggler –
who had the drug sown onto her laptop case – is starting a
fourteen-and-a-half year sentence after being caught at Gatwick
Airport.
Claudia Yvonne Schade, 43, was
sentenced shortly after her travel companion Susan Margaret Thompson,
63, of Albermarle Road, Beckenham was cleared of the same offence.
She denied, but was convicted at
Croydon Crown Court of importing 6.46 kilos of cocaine on April 3 as
she stepped off a flight from Trinidad and tobago.
“It was a very large and every
expensive amount of cocaine,” the jury were told. “It was
secreted in each of these defendants laptop cases.”
The laptop cases were in the women's
suitcases and were searched by the UK Border Agency.
The court also heard in recent times
Schade, a woman of previous good character, had travelled to Japan
and made other international trips.
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