South African Airways hostess Elphia Dlamini, 42, was caught by a sniffer dog after she flew to Heathrow from Johannesburg.

stewardess who tried to smuggle £300,000 of cocaine into the UK in her bra and knickers has been jailed for seven years.

South African Airways hostess Elphia Dlamini, 42, was caught by a sniffer dog after she flew to Heathrow from Johannesburg.

She said her lover told her to do it or she wouldn't see her son again, Isleworth crown court, South West London, heard.

Judge George Winstanley said the amount was significant and would cause misery to addicts.



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Australian on death row for drug smuggling must be executed in line with his original sentence, rejecting appeals for mercy from Australian police.

Indonesian prosecutors said Monday an Australian on death row for drug smuggling must be executed in line with his original sentence, rejecting appeals for mercy from Australian police.

Presenting their response to the appeal of Scott Rush, 24, against his death sentence, prosecutors said no new material had been presented to warrant a more lenient punishment.

"We disagree with the appeal made by the defence lawyers," prosecutor Ida Bagus Made Argitha Chandra told the Denpasar district court.

He dismissed testimony for the defence by two top-ranking Australian police officers that Rush was only a "courier".

"We don't differentiate the roles," he said, adding that "drug smuggling is a serious threat to the image of Bali" as a tourist destination.

"Narcotics are a big danger and a transnational crime and the accused should be severely punished."

Rush was a member of the so-called Bali Nine gang of Australians who were caught in 2005 trying to smuggle 8.3 kilogrammes (18 pounds, five ounces) of heroin into Australia from Bali.

Former Australian Federal Police commissioner Mick Keelty and current Deputy Commissioner Mike Phelan appeared on Rush's behalf at the Bali court earlier this month.

Keelty said Rush -- who had a life sentence upgraded to death after an earlier appeal -- was not a leader of the plot and did not deserve to be sent to his death, probably by firing squad.

Phelan noted that it was Rush's first drug offence and as such would face "less than 10 years" if convicted in Australia, which does not have a death penalty.

No date has been set for a ruling on the appeal.

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