She was a straight A student at a top university, but was secretly up to no good

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A straight-A student at a 'top university' has been jailed for her role in a £20 million drug trafficking plot. Sian Banks has thrown away her promising education and ended up behind bars after her fingerprints were found on vacuum packed bags of ketamine stashed inside a lorry bound for the UK through Dover's port.

The 25 year-old became involved due to a 'llove for the lifestyle' that her dealer boyfriend offered, a court has been told.

Analysis of her phone revealed messages between her and her boyfriend Eddie Burton which revealed on at least two occasions she smuggled cocaine and ketamine through Liverpool's John Lennon Airport, while a police probe into her bank accounts revealed she was helping finance his life on the run in mainland Europe.

As she was sentenced this week, Judge Simon Taylor KC said her involvement in the plot and the associated offending stemmed from two things. "You are sentenced on the basis that you were seduced by your love for Burton and a love for the lifestyle you were living," he told her, the Liverpool Echo reports.