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Women on the brink the plight of Jamaican cocaine mules

Women on the brink the plight of Jamaican cocaine mules Women on the drugs brink – the plight of Jamaican cocaine mules Axel Klein Head of the International Unit, DrugScope [email protected] Felicity Williams broke down when she heard the length of her sentence. The men who had asked her to do ‘this run’ had promised that at worst they would keep her in for a few weeks, but that in all likelihood she would be sent back with an entry in her passport. In any case it would not happen because the set up was perfect, the half- kilo of cocaine she had ingested would never be found. The customs officer who stopped her at Gatwick shattered that illusion, forcing her to emit all 78 pallets in front of her team. After the pain and the humiliation she had thought the worst was over, until that was, the judge had his say. When passing sentence his lordship allowed for Murphy R, 1999). Defence lawyers may still the defendant’s lack of clarity over the gravity of produce home circumstances reports but there is her actions, yet he declared that this should not no guarantee that this will affect the sentence. be a mitigating circumstance, ‘You may be of low intellectual http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Drugs and Alcohol Today Emerald Publishing

Women on the brink the plight of Jamaican cocaine mules

Klein, Axel
Drugs and Alcohol Today , Volume 4 (3): 3 – Nov 1, 2004
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Women on the drugs brink – the plight of Jamaican cocaine mules Axel Klein Head of the International Unit, DrugScope [email protected] Felicity Williams broke down when she heard the length of her sentence. The men who had asked her to do ‘this run’ had promised that at worst they would keep her in for a few weeks, but that in all likelihood she would be sent back with an entry in her passport. In any case it would not happen because the set up was perfect, the half- kilo of cocaine she had ingested would never be found. The customs officer who stopped her at Gatwick shattered that illusion, forcing her to emit all 78 pallets in front of her team. After the pain and the humiliation she had thought the worst was over, until that was, the judge had his say. When passing sentence his lordship allowed for Murphy R, 1999). Defence lawyers may still the defendant’s lack of clarity over the gravity of produce home circumstances reports but there is her actions, yet he declared that this should not no guarantee that this will affect the sentence. be a mitigating circumstance, ‘You may be of low intellectual

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Published: Nov 1, 2004

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