BBC Information
BBC Information
Charlotte Might Lee/InstagramA British girl has been arrested in Sri Lanka after police allegedly discovered 101lbs (46kg) of the artificial drug kush in her suitcase.
Customized officers posed for footage with luggage of medicine they accuse Charlotte Might Lee, 21, from south London, of making an attempt to smuggle into the nation earlier this month.
The previous flight attendant denies understanding there have been medication in her suitcase and says she believes they have been planted there.
Ms Lee is being held in a jail north of the south Asian nation’s capital, Colombo, and is contact along with her household, her lawyer informed the BBC. She may resist 25 years in jail if discovered responsible.
Her authorized consultant, Sampath Perera, informed the BBC his staff was visiting her every day in jail within the metropolis of Negombo, to offer assist and monitor her wellbeing.
A senior officer within the Sri Lanka Customs Narcotics Management Unit mentioned the seizure at Colombo’s Bandaranaike Airport on 5 Might was the most important in its historical past.
Ms Lee told Mail Online on Wednesday: “I had by no means seen them [the drugs] earlier than. I did not count on all of it once they pulled me over on the airport.
“I believed it was going to be crammed with all my stuff.”
She informed the paper she had been in Thai capital, Bangkok, previous to the flight, and packed her suitcase in her lodge room earlier than heading out for the evening.
“They should have planted it then,” she mentioned. “I do know who did it.”
She didn’t test her bag once more earlier than heading to Colombo, the place she was arrested on 12 Might, mentioned Ms Lee.
Ms Lee went to Sri Lanka as her visa was about to run out and she or he needed a visit someplace close by earlier than heading again to Thailand, she informed the newspaper.
She added that she faces harsh circumstances within the jail, together with sleeping on a concrete ground.
Ms Lee is alleged to have flown from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport across the similar time as one other British girl, Bella Culley, 18, from Billingham, County Durham, who is being held in Georgia on suspicion of drug offences.
A senior customs officer in Sri Lanka informed the BBC: “On the identical day, one other passenger who had left Bangkok airport, virtually on the similar time, was arrested out of the country. We arrested this girl [Ms Lee] primarily based on profiling.”
He mentioned there had been a large enhance in medication coming by way of Bangkok into Sri Lanka.
“This has been an actual nuisance.”
Ms Culley may resist 20 years in jail or life imprisonment if discovered responsible.
She is being detained earlier than trial whereas the authorities investigates the place 26lbs (12kg) of marijuana and 4.4lbs (2kg) of cannabis present in a journey bag got here from, and whether or not she was planning on handing it over to another person.
