Friday, February 27, 2004

Jail for drug smuggling mothers

Two Wolverhampton mothers have been jailed for five months for smuggling three kilos of cannabis into the country.

The women had hidden the drugs using false bottoms in their wheeled bags.

Patricia Brown, 24, and her 22 year-old cousin Stacey Hailey were caught with around £10,000 worth of the drug at Heathrow Airport in July last year.

The pair admitted the offence at Isleworth Crown Court in London on Friday.

Brown, from Johnson Road in Blakenhall and Hailey, from Lime Street, Penn, had just returned from a family funeral in Jamaica, the court heard.