4 h. ago Police make dire Charlotte May Lee vow after former TUI flight attendant's 'record cannabis haul'

Charlotte May Lee was arrested after stepping off SriLankan Airlines Flight UL 405 at Bandaranaike International Airport after staff allegedly discovered a stash of synthetic "kush" cannabis

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7 h. 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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37 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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37 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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42 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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45 h. ago Teacher 'had sex with pupil' before telling police she 'saw him as a brother'

Rouse High School teacher Darian Rogers, 22, has been charged with having an improper relationship with a teenage student after another pupil went to the police

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48 h. ago Amazon worker tells police it is 'stupidest mistake he has ever made' after £70,000 find

He was caught out just after finishing his shift

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51 h. ago ‘I’m less apologetic now’: Kelly Macdonald on her Trainspotting teen highs and hitting her stride in her 40s

She hid in the toilets during the Trainspotting shoot – yet became a screen sensation. As the star plays a police therapist in new Netflix thriller Dept Q, she explains why today’s young female actors leave her in aweOne of the good things about playing a therapist, says Kelly Macdonald with a laugh, is that you get to sit down a lot. There’s a fun scene in the new Netflix thriller Dept Q in which her character, Dr Rachel Irving, weary of her client DCI Carl Morck, plants herself down behind her desk to eat her packed lunch in front of him. Morck may be the kind of troubled detective we’re used to seeing in police dramas, but Irving isn’t a typical therapist. She’s blunt, antagonistic even. It’s a “shitty” job working with police officers, she tells him. Another time she describes him as “doolally”, which in my experience is not something a typical therapist would say; Macdonald, who has had therapy, “but not regularly”, may agree.In the show – adapted from novels by the Danish auth...

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58 h. ago Chef found in house with £34,00 worth of heroin and cocaine hidden inside a washing machine

Police found 300 deals of cocaine and heroin and Mohammad Saad drove off from the raid after telling police he had ID in his car

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63 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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63 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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66 h. ago British tourist, 65, is accused of molesting dozens of children from Namibia's San tribe after forcing them to strip at remote 'living museum'

The tourist was arrested by police on Sunday after allegedly telling San children at the living museum of the Ju'/Hoansi to undress (Illustrative image of San woman)

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69 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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2 d. 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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3 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 Oil industry funded Girl Scouts and British Museum to boost image, evidence suggests

BP has funded Washington’s National Gallery of Art, UK’s Royal Shakespeare Company and National Portrait GalleryOil interests have funded cultural institutions such as museums, youth organizations and athletic groups in recent years, new research shows, in what appears to be a public relations effort to boost their image amid growing public awareness of the climate crisis.Top US fossil fuel lobby group the American Petroleum Institute (API) sponsored a 2017 workshop for the Pennsylvania Girl Scouts, featuring “activities that mimicked work in the energy industry”. Energy giant BP in 2016 sponsored Washington DC’s National Gallery of Art and continues to fund the British Museum in London. And in 2019, Shell sponsored the golf event the Houston Open for the 26th time. Continue reading...

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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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4 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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