4 h. ago Drug smuggler, 63, who brought 100kg of ketamine into the UK in a motorhome is jailed

Russell King, 63, stored four bin bags of the Class B drug in compartments within the motorhome before crossing the North Sea by ferry from Rotterdam to Hull.

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11 h. ago Who is the father of Bella Culley's baby? As Brit 'drugs mule' drops backpacker hint

Bella May Culley has alleged she was 'coerced' by smugglers into carrying the drugs, and has even claimed she doesn't know which country she's in after being arrested

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15 h. ago Woman caught drunk at the wheel of her car at 4.30am is spared driving ban after insisting she only sat in the driver's seat to 'keep warm'

Katie Scragg, 23, had been on a night out with her sister in Congleton, Cheshire, when she decided to return to her Seat Ibiza, which was parked near a Wetherspoons.

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15 h. ago Drug smugglers set fire to own yacht to destroy cocaine haul

Drug smugglers set fire to their own yacht to destroy cocaine, dramatic footage released by Spanish authorities shows.

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17 h. ago Moment Bella Culley 'smuggles £200k drug haul to airport' as cops share CCTV

Brit Bella May Culley, who is currently on trial for attempting to smuggle £200,000 worth of cannabis over the boarder and into Europe, has been captured in CCTV footage before her alleged crime

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29 h. ago Bella May Culley: New CCTV of Brit 'drug mule' released as cops slam 'baseless' claims

Bella Culley claimed during a pre-trial hearing that she was forced to smuggle drugs out of Thailand and that 'nobody paid attention' when she asked for help at Bangkok airport

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31 h. ago Police release CCTV of pregnant British drug mule suspect Bella Culley, 18, 'smuggling £200,000 of cannabis' through Bangkok airport

Bella May Culley, 18, was stopped at Tbilisi airport back in May in a suspected sting operation and was found with cannabis and hashish with a street value of £200,000.

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60 h. ago Thai Police break silence on Bella May Culley's claims of 'torture' and 'forced smuggling'

Thai authorities have responded to Bella May Culley's claims that she was 'tortured' and 'forced' to smuggle drugs from Thailand, claiming that CCTV footage from the airport shows otherwise.

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63 h. ago What Emma Raducanu immediately did in Wimbledon locker room after being knocked out

Emma Raducanu was defeated by Aryna Sabalenka in the third round of Wimbledon on Friday and the British star has opened up on her process after suffering a defeat

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3 d. ago National Crime Agency's most wanted list in London including drug smugglers

National Crime Agency's most wanted list in London including drug smugglers  Ilford Recorder

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4 d. ago Liverpool clinic 'offering cosmetic surgery procedures with no medical qualifications'

A woman with allegedly no verified UK medical credentials was caught offering both upper and lower eyelid procedures inside what appeared to be a dingy, non-sterile flat above a restaurant in Liverpool

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4 d. ago Eight jailed for 129 years over €157m drug plot that saw cocaine haul seized from ship

Eight men were sentenced on Friday for their roles in trying to smuggle cocaine worth more than 157 million euro in the drug trafficking operation on the MV Matthew

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6 d. ago Bella May Culley: Pregnant British teenager tells court she was ‘forced’ to smuggle drugs into Georgia

The teenager faces charges of possession and trafficking a large amount of illegal drugs

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6 d. ago Scots drug smugglers arrested in £26m cocaine bust after high

Gardaí said that the exact quantity and value are yet to be determined, but it is understood to be in excess of €31 million.

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6 d. ago British gang 'threatened to decapitate' teen drug mule who faces jail in ex

Bella Culley is languishing in Women's Penitentiary No. 5 after being caught with the drugs as she entered Tbilisi Airport in the Georgian capital on May 10.

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6 d. ago Cannabis use 'not benign' says judge after Sadiq Khan's call for decriminalisation

Judge Edmunds spoke out about cannabis while jailing a young man who had tried to smuggle the drugs

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6 d. ago British gang 'threatened to decapitate teenage drug mule suspect and her family and tortured her with a hot iron to force her to smuggle narcotics into Georgia

Bella Culley is languishing in Women's Penitentiary No. 5 after being caught with the drugs as she entered Tbilisi Airport in the Georgian capital on May 10.

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7 d. ago 'Drug smuggling' Brit teen sobs in court claiming she was ‘tortured and forced’

Bella Culley told the court: "All I wanted to do was to travel and this happened to me. I’m clean - I had nothing in my blood test. I wanted to make my family proud."

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7 d. ago Pregnant British drug mule suspect Bella Culley, 18, says she was 'forced under torture' to smuggle narcotics into Georgia from Thailand as she breaks down in tears before judge

The British 18-year-old claimed she has a 'scar' that proves she was violently coerced into trafficking the narcotics and has no idea what country she is even in.

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8 d. ago Clubber from Newcastle reported missing a week ago by his girlfriend is found in a Cambodian jail arrested on suspicion of drug smuggling

Robert Brown, 41, from Newcastle, has been arrested in Cambodia after attempting to smuggle nearly 20kg of marijuana into the UK - just hours after he was reported missing by his partner.

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