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'Smuggler' aged 80

Thursday 17 February 1994 00:02 GMT
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An 80-year-old great-grandmother was caught smuggling pounds 250,000 worth of cocaine into Britain from Guyana hidden under her girdle, a court was told. Mengri Jettoo, stopped at Heathrow with 1.7kg of the drug, is the oldest suspected drugs smuggler to be arrested by British Customs. The case continues.

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