drugs mule has been jailed after authorities discovered he swallowed 99 wraps of cocaine in a bid to smuggle them into Heathrow Airport.
Jean Da Silva Oliveira, 22, consumed more than one kilogram of the substance, and has been sentenced to four years in prison.Oliveira flew out from his hometown Sao Paolo in Brazil with the intake of class A drugs.After landing at the London airport on September 5, he was stopped by Border Force officers.Officials found inconsistencies in his account – he was arrested before a National Crime Agency investigation began.Oliveira – who had claimed he was in the UK for nearly a month as part of a “dream” visit – was x-rayed and the large number of packages was uncovered.The drugs’ street value was around.
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