Two beauticians who tried to smuggle £6,500 worth of drugs into a top dance festival have been spared jail after a judge accepted they were "pressured" into acting as mules by members of their coach party.
Erin Hobdell, 21, was caught with 42 knotted plastic bags containing cocaine, and ecstasy tablets hidden in her waistband whilst Kira McNicol, 23, had 143 Ecstasy tablets secreted in her private parts.
The pair had travelled 230 miles from their homes in Scotland to attend Creamfields festival in Runcorn, Cheshire in 2022 with a group of their friends.
When questioned the pair claimed they were persuaded to take the drugs into the event by the rest of the coach party and insisted they were not planning to sell the drugs.
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