MyLondon reports Monteiro pleaded guilty on Thursday, January 28 at Isleworth Crown Court and was sentenced to four years and two months in prison.NCA Heathrow operations manager Ian Truby said: "This was an incredibly dangerous smuggling method."Had any one of those packages split then the consequences could have been fatal."Organised crime groups need drugs mules like Dos Santos Monteiro to bring their illicit substances into the UK."His was an important link in the chain from the producers and cartels in South America to the UK street gangs who sell these drugs."At every level throughout that chain, we see criminals engaged in violence and exploitation, which is why we are doing everything we can to target the networks involved in.
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