97 m. ago How the British girl caught with record cannabis haul in Sri Lanka is telling police it's all the fault of a mystery man called Dan she met on a beach

Sri Lankan Airlines Flight UL 405 had barely left the runway before the 21-year-old part-time beautician from Surrey slapped on a hydrating in-flight facial mask and stuck in her earphones.

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31 h. ago Alleged drug smuggler Charlotte May Lee 'besotted with mystery man Rocko' in Thailand

Friends of alleged British drug smuggler Charlotte May Lee said she was besotted with a man named 'Rocko' before she was arrested in Sri Lanka, accused of carring £1m of cannabis

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31 h. ago Charlotte May Lee: 'Drug smuggler' was besotted with 'mystery man Rocko' in Thailand

Friends of alleged British drug smuggler Charlotte May Lee said she was besotted with a man named 'Rocko' before she was arrested in Sri Lanka, accused of carring £1m of cannabis

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37 h. ago 'Drug mule' Charlotte May Lee pictured in glamorous mugshot moments after arrest

Charlotte May Lee, 21, was stopped at an airport in Sri Lanka after arriving from Thailand, with authorities claiming she was carrying cannabis valued at more than £1m

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49 h. ago Glamorous British 'drug mule' is seen posing for her police mugshot moments after she was arrested for 'smuggling'

Pictures exclusively revealed by MailOnline show the former TUI cabin crew member, 21, in an all white ensemble with gem-studded sandals as she stood at Colombo's Police Narcotic Unit.

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57 h. ago Brit accused of smuggling drugs into Sri Lanka faces waiting a YEAR to learn her fate

Charlotte May Lee, 21, from Coulsdon, south London, was arrested in the capital Colombo last week after police discovered 46 kg of 'Kush' in her suitcase.

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58 h. ago Footballer thought he was ‘importing gold not cannabis’ in drug smuggling plot

Border Force officers detected the drugs in two suitcases at an airport

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58 h. ago Brit accused of smuggling drugs into Sri Lanka 'is remanded into hell prison and warned she may have to wait a YEAR to learn her fate'

Charlotte May Lee, 21, from Coulsdon, south London , was arrested in the capital Colombo last week after police discovered 46 kg of 'Kush' in her suitcase.

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59 h. ago Bella Culley's dad visits pregnant 'drug smuggling' teen behind bars in Georgia

Bella Culley's dad Niel Culley has been spotted visiting his 18-year-old daughter in prison in Georgia for the first time since her arrest in May.

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63 h. ago All we know about Brit 'drug smuggler' Charlotte May Lee's jail hell as spicy prison meals make her sick

Former TUI stewardess, Charlotte May Lee, has been arrested in Sri Lanka and accused of smuggling £1.2 million of drugs into the country – here is everything we know

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64 h. ago London 'drugs mule', 21, breaks silence from hellhole Sri Lankan jail: 'I've not eaten for two days

Charlotte May Lee pleads innocence in first interview from behind bars in Sri Lanka’s Negombo Prison

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2 d. ago Brit 'drug smuggler' says she is being set up as she speaks for the first time from behind bars

Charlotte May Lee, 21, insists she has been set up as she had "no idea" there were drugs in her luggage when she set off from Bangkok and insists the drugs were planted

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2 d. ago Charlotte May Lee LIVE: British 'drugs mule' speaks from behind bars at 'hellhole' Sri Lanka prison

Charlotte May Lee, who was allegedly caught with £1.2 million worth of cannabis at Bandaranaike Airport in Sri Lanka, faces years locked in a grim prison on the island

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3 d. ago British 'drugs mule', 21, speaks from behind bars in Sri Lanka hellhole prison to reveal HER side of the story

Charlotte May Lee, 21, from Coulsdon, south London , was arrested in the capital Colombo last week after police discovered 46 kg of 'Kush' - a synthetic strain of cannabis - in her suitcase.

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3 d. ago Brit 'drug mule' Charlotte May Lee strikes up 'surprise friendship' in prison

Charlotte May Lee, 21, is being is being held in a 'rotting' cell in the capital of Sri Lanka, where she awaits her first court appearance. The Brit has reportedly become 'very friendly' with someone in prison

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3 d. ago Charlotte May Lee fears being locked away for 20 years over £1.2m drugs bust

British nail technician Charlotte May Lee, 21, is accused of trying to smuggle the synthetic opioid 'kush' into Sri Lanka - and fears she could spend decades in jail after being caught

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3 d. ago Bella May Culley's prison pregnancy fears and 'consequence' as she makes complaint

Bella May Culley, a reportedly pregnant teenager who faces charges of drug smuggling behind the decaying walls of a notorious women's prison, has allegedly been denied medical care

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3 d. ago TUI stewardess faces life in grim 'hellhole' prison for 'smuggling drugs'

Charlotte May Lee allegedly attempted to smuggle drugs with a value of £1.2million into Sri Lanka where she had flown from Thailand.

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4 d. ago The Guardian view on the EU trade deal: a rational step forward | Editorial

Tangible gains from these negotiations will be limited, but the prime minister has at last set a positive toneSo much remains to be worked out in Sir Keir Starmer’s deal with the EU that it must be regarded as a staging post rather than a final destination. In several key areas, the agreement announced in London on Monday is really a commitment to have more meetings at which negotiators will try to make more agreements.On the issue of visas for young people and the UK’s mooted return to the Erasmus university-exchange scheme, there is little clarity beyond the rebranding of “youth mobility” as “experience”. A decision on the level of fees that European students must pay has also been booted forward. So have some details of how the UK will work with the bloc on policing and security, including the use of controversial facial-recognition technology in tackling drug and people smuggling across borders.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you wo...

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4 d. ago Young British woman held on drug charges in Sri Lanka could be linked to Culley case

Charlotte May Lee, 21, from south London, flew from the same Bangkok airport as Bella May Culley, who was arrested a day earlierWithin a day of Bella May Culley being arrested at a Georgian airport for allegedly trying to smuggle 14kg of cannabis, the same fate met another Briton 3,000 miles away.As Charlotte May Lee stepped off her flight at Bandaranaike International airport in Colombo, Sri Lanka last Monday, the 21-year-old former cabin attendant was arrested for an alleged attempt to bring in £1.2m worth of a synthetic cannabis strain known as kush in her two suitcases. Continue reading...

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