3 d. ago Greater Manchester couple charged with drugs smuggling after Heathrow Airport arrest

The pair were allegedly caught with cannabis worth £1 million after returning from Thailand

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4 d. ago Brits accused of smuggling cocaine in Angel Delight packets are hauled back in to Bali court as they face charges that can result in death penalty

Jon Collyer, 38, and Lisa Stocker, 39, were arrested at Bali's international airport in February after being caught with 994g of cocaine stashed inside sachets of Angel Delight, according to authorities.

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4 d. ago Knocked up then locked up: Woman is caught smuggling drugs in fake baby bump

The 27-year-old suspect was arrested on board a bus in the city of Cali after police discovered that she was wearing a latex belly.

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4 d. ago The Prosecutor review – Donnie Yen leads mashup of legal drama and action flick

Suited and booted, Yen turns to role as public prosector cum ass-kicking vigilante as a late-stage career recalibrationDeveloped by China’s Supreme People’s Procuratorate and directed by butt-kicking luminary Donnie Yen, The Prosecutor is a bizarre mashup of courtroom procedural and action flick; it is just as keen on lionising due process and the “shining light” of Chinese justice as it is on reducing civic infrastructure to smithereens in several standout bouts. But Yen, who looks undeniably good in a suit, is more convincing on his habitual fisticuff grounds than the jurisprudential ones.Yen plays Fok, a one-time hotshot cop who – leaving the force after some over-zealous policing – decides to man the “final gate” of justice and become a public prosecutor. Like a low-carb Perry Mason with years of Brazilian jiu-jitsu behind him, trouble keeps knocking on his door. Suspecting that a young drug smuggler (Mason Yung) whose case he is assigned has pled guilty to get his higher-ups of...

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5 d. ago I spent three years in a Lima prison for smuggling £1.5million of cocaine

Michaella McCollum and Melissa Reid were 20 when they became friends holidaying on the party island in August 2013 and were soon coerced into sneaking £1.5million worth of cocaine into Peru.

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5 d. ago The gripping, emotive tale of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira’s disappearance: best podcasts of the week

An evocative deep dive into the environmental journalist and Brazilian Indigenous defender going missing in the Amazon. Plus, Richard Ayoade teams up with Warwick Davis, while Amber Rudd has some inside info to share This six-episode Guardian podcast opens with evocative descriptions of dense Amazonian jungle teeming with macaws, jaguars and howler monkeys. But the pastoral beauty soon gives way to fear, as we hear about the disappearance of environmental journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian Indigenous defender Bruno Pereira in a tale that pits them against the forces that run one of the world’s biggest drug-smuggling routes. This gripping investigation tries to get to the bottom of what happened and, given that it’s hosted by Phillips’s friend, the Guardian’s Latin America correspondent Tom Phillips, does so in a movingly personal manner. Alexi DugginsEpisodes weekly, Widely available Continue reading...

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6 d. ago All the Brits facing death row in foreign jails before the end of the year

With recent news showing several Brits being caught smuggling drugs across the border, some could face the same fate as prisoners currently waiting on death row

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7 d. ago Tourists warned not to give in to very persuasive people who could land them in prison this summer

People jetting back to the UK are being urged to "just say no" if they are asked to put anything in their suitcases. It follows the case of former Cardiff City footballer Jay Emmanuel-Thomas who duped two people into smuggling drugs into the UK

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8 d. ago Former Arsenal star jailed for four years over £600k drugs smuggling plot

Former Arsenal striker Jay Emmanuel-Thomas has been jailed for four years over a £600k drugs smuggling plot after 60kg of cannabis was found in suitcases

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8 d. ago British drug mules warned of "excellent technology" used to snare traffickers in Europe

The Foreign Office has issued a fresh warning to British criminals vying to smuggle drugs through Germany and said the crime carries "severe penalties"

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8 d. ago Fugitive Liverpool 'drug trafficker' wanted for 'smuggling cocaine and heroin' arrested in Holland after five

Francis Coggins, 60, was held outside a residential property in the coastal town of Zandvoort on Tuesday.

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8 d. ago UK Foreign Office issues warning for people travelling to 48 countries

Travel guidance has been updated for countries across the globe regarding drug smuggling and possession

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9 d. ago Why Brits are 'flavour of the month' for drug smuggler gangs: The pensioners and glam influencers recruited as drug mules on promise of fast cash and luxury holidays

Several Brits, mostly glamorous young women, are being recruited into the murky world of drug smuggling which has left them facing lengthy sentences or even the death penalty.

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9 d. ago Mystery of Brit 'drug mule' explosion as 13 in hellhole jails with some facing death

A dramatic surge in the number of Brits arrested for drug smuggling around the world has triggered mounting alarm among police and border force officials as 13 languish in hellhole jails

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9 d. ago Peru Two's Michaella McCollum says Brit 'drug mules' won't survive prison

Michaella McCollum, who served three years in a Peruvian jail on drug smuggling charges, has extended her sympathies to Bella May Culley and Charlotte May Lee, both of whom face lengthy sentences she says would be far beyond her own limit

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9 d. ago Alarm at soaring number of 'smuggling' Brits arrested abroad in 'drug mule crisis'

An alarming explosion in the number of Brits arrested for drug smuggling abroad has raised fresh concerns about the growing use of UK citizens as international drug mules

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1 week ago 'Drug smuggling' mum arrested at German airport after police spot 'red flag'

Cameron Bradford is the fifth young British woman to be detained abroad facing drugs charges in recent months.

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1 week ago Brits could face death penalty for ‘smuggling cocaine in Angel Delight sachets’

They are alleged to have smuggled over two pounds of drugs into Bali

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1 week ago 'Missing' Brit, 21, arrested at airport over 'drug smuggling' as police spot 'red flag'

Cameron Bradford, 21 and from Hertfordshire, has been detained in Munich on suspicion of smuggling cannabis after police spotted a 'red flag' relating to her plans

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1 week ago 'Drug smuggling' Brit, 21, arrested at airport after German cops spot 'red flag'

Cameron Bradford, a 21-year-old mother of one, has been detained in Munich, Germany on suspicion of smuggling cannabis - she's the latest young British woman to face drugs charges overseas

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