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 77-year-old granny is a £1m cocaine smuggler [UK]
#8997864 - 09/28/08 12:23 PM (2 months, 5 days ago) |
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77-year-old granny is a £1m cocaine smuggle
September 28, 2008 - sundaymercury.net
A 77 YEAR-old Midland gran is facing a lengthy jail sentence after smuggling £1 MILLION of cocaine into the country in her Motability vehicle.
Ambrozine Heron, from Smethwick, and her daughter Paulette Chambers, 49, were caught with a car full of the Class A drug as they tried to drive through Dover ferry port.
The pair made 14 trips to the continent to collect their shipments from Holland and would fool customs officials by using the ailing granny as a cover for their smuggling. But the family business came unstuck when Heron’s Nissan Pathfinder was stopped at Dover by customs who discovered 40 food tins containing the pure cocaine.
The mum and daughter also conned London taxi driver Edmund Anderson, 47, into driving them on the drug runs. He was acquitted of any involvement in the smuggling by a jury at Canterbury Crown Court.
Heron now faces a lengthy prison sentence after being found guilty of the importation of Class A drugs. Her daughter had already admitted her part in the smuggling operation. Both women will be sentenced on October 6.
Heron had initially claimed her daughter was having an affair with Mr Anderson, claims which he vehemently denied. The cabbie told the court he had no idea what went on after dropping the pair off at a flat in Almera, near Amsterdam.
Heron, who suffers from asthma, diabetes and arthritis, was stopped at Dover by customs officers already suspicious because of the high number of trips the Pathfinder had made to the continent since October 2007.
Sniffer dogs soon homed in on two shopping bags on the back row of seats and investigators found 40 tins of palm oil which contained the drugs worth just over £1 million.
When questioned by police, Heron denied drug smuggling said: ”I don’t know anything about that.
“I just went with my daughter. I didn’t ask any questions because I’m not a nosy person.
”I don’t smoke or drink. What am I doing with drugs?”
Heron had lived in the Midlands since her arrival from Jamaica in 1949 - and had never been in trouble with the police previously.
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Re: 77-year-old granny is a £1m cocaine smuggler [UK] [Re: veggie]
#8997913 - 09/28/08 12:39 PM (2 months, 5 days ago) |
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Kinda makes you ask what your grandma is doing right now.
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Re: 77-year-old granny is a £1m cocaine smuggler [UK] [Re: Knifeplay]
#8998066 - 09/28/08 01:27 PM (2 months, 5 days ago) |
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yeah seriously, this is kinda fucked up but awesome at the same time
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Re: 77-year-old granny is a £1m cocaine smuggler [UK] [Re: NobodyImportant]
#8999086 - 09/28/08 05:33 PM (2 months, 5 days ago) |
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I Agree lol
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Re: 77-year-old granny is a £1m cocaine smuggler [UK] [Re: veggie]
#8999131 - 09/28/08 05:40 PM (2 months, 5 days ago) |
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it's sad--- makes me wonder what she was thinking? Being 77 years old and spend the rest of your life in prison is no way to end up IMO.
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Re: 77-year-old granny is a £1m cocaine smuggler [UK] [Re: travelleler]
#9000371 - 09/28/08 10:27 PM (2 months, 5 days ago) |
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see every1 loves droogs!!!
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Re: 77-year-old granny is a £1m cocaine smuggler [UK] [Re: veggie]
#9003724 - 09/29/08 04:56 PM (2 months, 4 days ago) |
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probably needed to feed her slot machine addiction
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Re: 77-year-old granny is a £1m cocaine smuggler [UK] [Re: veggie]
#9038636 - 10/06/08 06:54 PM (1 month, 28 days ago) |
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Cocaine plot grandmother given 13 years
October 6, 2008 - independent.co.uk
A sickly grandmother was found guilty yesterday of smuggling almost £1m worth of cocaine into the UK in her mobility vehicle. Ambrozine Heron, 77, was jailed for 13 years, while her daughter, Paulette Chambers, 49, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Customs officers at Dover found 16kg of cocaine in Heron's specially-adapted Nissan Pathfinder after they stopped the car as it arrived from France in March, Canterbury Crown Court heard.
The pensioner from Smethwick, West Midlands, who suffers from diabetes, asthma and hypertension, had made 14 other similar trips to the continent with her daughter and was likely to have smuggled drugs, the jury heard.
Sentencing, Judge Adele Williams told Heron: "I have no doubt that your role in the car was to add some respectability to the journey in respect of your age and your ill health."
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