Larissa Lins, 27, had been stopped at Manchester Airport after flying from Brazil. She claimed she had come to the UK to 'research nice places' having flown through France and Portugal previously.
Denying she had brought anything illegal into the country, she showed officers pictures of her time in France.
However, as they scrolled, they came across a picture of the 'white pellets' and further searches revealed that Lins had ingested, secreted and concealed a kilo of the drug both internally and externally.
After pleading guilty to being concerned in the fraudulent evasion of a prohibition on the importation of a class A drug, she was jailed and told she will 'almost inevitably' be deported back to Brazil after serving 40 per cent of her sentence.
This story is from the October 19, 2024 edition of Manchester Evening News.
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