Another drug mule arrest ‘based on profiling?’

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy6gq0l5dgo

AIBU to think the profiles of drugs mules has changed! What are these young women playing at messing up their lives?

What the hell was her luggage allowance!

Crikey, that's disturbing.

Bangkok Hilton was so powerful - I remember checking my bags very carefully when going over the border in to Thailand.

And yet loads of backpackers go there every year and somehow manage not to smuggle drugs.

Go on her FB, then. She's 21 and a really good looking girl. The ill treatment in prison will take its toll, but at 21, her body/face will bounce back. It's a strange thing to be intrigued by.

Eton?

@Ponoka7

My comment was based on the recent images of Bella Culley in news reports.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yxe6e073po

Her social media image looks nothing like the person who appeared in court. I don't think it's strange to wonder if the person who eventually appears in court in this instance bears any resemblance to her social media images.

The Kush's are a range of indica dominant strains of cannabis, selectively bred to grow in the Hindu kush region of Pakistan, fast flowering and mould resistant. They are higher in CBD rather than THC, and have been the backbone of medicinal cannabis development in the west. They've been around since the sixties, and they're not synthetic in any way. I wonder if you're thinking of "spice"?

This absolutely it’s the materialism. It’s so hard for kids nowadays as there is so much pressure

@FigTreeInEurope, it's also a name given to chemically altered cannabis that's been causing severe problems in West Africa for years:

"Some forms of Kush are sprayed with synthetic cannabinoids, chemicals designed to mimic the natural psychoactive compounds found in the cannabis plant. The synthetic chemicals are many times more powerful than even the strongest cannabis strains and can often have severe harmful side effects.

"The second, more recent form of kush is sprayed with a mixture of synthetic opioids called nitazenes. Dr de Bruijne says: 'It's an opioid so it's similar to heroin, but it's very strong and it's deadly because even a little more than a milligram too much is able to kill someone'."

Other analyses from Sierra Leone have reported kush made with antiretrovirals, which apparently have hallucinogenic effects, fentanyl and sulphur alongside weird cutting agents and excipients.

Same ole same ole.

Young dumb pretty, wanting the lavish life for near zero work. Would have been better off being a porta potti for the life style than a mule though.

My DD28 has 3 registered sex offenders out of her year group in a nice secondary school in a nice area.

Ditto Kim Hall. Remember her from earlier in the year? Her social media pics are hilariously different to how she actually really looks.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/brit-beautician-who-smuggled-46m-35184093

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Regarding the young woman in the OP, come ON, how did she not know she was carrying almost 50 kilos of drugs? Some ADULTS weigh that. She is pretending to be all innocent, but she knew what she was doing. Just like many GenZ these days, she wants to get rich fast, without any actual proper hard graft! (Like Reality TV people!) And as has been said, these girls/young women all have a similar look. (Fake/fillers/trying to look like a girl off Love Island!)

I don't think they deserve 40-50 years in jail for it though. (I think maybe 5-8 years...) But unfortunately, that's the kind of sentence that id dished out in the countries they smuggle out (and into!)

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But unfortunately, that's the kind of sentence that is dished out in the countries they smuggle out of (and into!)

She is back in prison in the US as she cut all her hair off as a cunning disguise and tried to get deported by ICE to get back to the UK.

Scary. This is also a good school (outstanding apparently) is a good affluent area (though borders on some not so affluent towns). It’s quite worrying. Other DC haven’t had any high profile criminals from their school year. One of the crimes, the school actually did report the student to prevent whilst he was in the school. The crime happened a couple of years after he left. DS said both the guys who murdered someone were very odd in school. Not sure what he knows about this young girl.

Most big burly men would struggle with a suitcase weighing over 7 stone.

And even if you were Geoff Capes, what kind of normal holiday luggage would weigh anything like that?

I’ve just read that she paid for excess baggage at the airport. How she though she was going to haul those heavy massive cases around and blend in as a tourist is anyone’s guess!

Another thread where posters are calling these moronic women "girls" and claiming it's all a man's fault they've been caught smuggling drugs.

Why are so many MNers unable to believe they're just greedy, vacuous, thick twats who deserve everything they get.

This. They know exactly what they’re doing and what the consequences are. No sympathy or care from me whatsoever, and hopefully she’ll get the maximum sentence for taking the piss saying she didn’t know she was carrying it.

Yep.

Since when has the Ofstead rating of a school had any bearing as to how many of its alumni turned into sex offenders?

Likewise how does being rich or living in an affluent area make it less likely for people to be pedeophiles?

Cannabis is not legal in Thailand. It's decriminalised below 0.2 THC but regulated import and export, children and breastfeeding women.

I am making the point it’s not some crime ridden school but an outstanding school in an affluent area. It’s not unusual for kids from rougher areas / poorer schools to turn to crime.

Most likely she was “grassed up”
and 1or 2 others took a huge amount more through at the same time

she was probably a “lamb” to get through someone else carrying even more stuff