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| Saturday, 17 January 2009 | ||||||
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FOUR Brits get 12-years for smuggling £1.7 million worth of cocaine off a cruise ship back in October 2008.
Judge Derwin-Hope sentenced them to a hefty 12 years in prison. In his summing up at the end of the court case, Judge Derwin-Hope said: “The sentence should serve as a deterrent to others from becoming drug couriers”.
Natalie Quinn, 26, Calvin Hylton, 41, Briony Dyce, 25, and Camille Dupee, 19, were arrested by armed cops on October 19th 2008 as they disembarked the 1,952-luxury passenger P&O Arcadia in Southampton.
British customs officials say they had the cocaine strapped to their bodies.
The 3-year-old ship had just returned from a 23-day cruise around the Caribbean where it made calls in Antigua, St. Lucia, Grenada, Barbados and other islands.
P&O ship security tipped customs and police upon arrival at the port, and a search then followed.
A P&O security officer is reported to have told police, he found the four young Britons suspiciously out of place with the rest of the passengers onboard who were in their 60s and 70s.
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