Jail for coke smuggling theatre manager

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A Czech theatre manager caught smuggling £100,000 worth of cocaine through Gatwick Airport for a man she met online was jailed for five-and-a-half years. Jitka Jahodova, 52, was arrested at the busy terminal after a border officer found over a kilo of the Class A drug sealed and stashed in her suitcase lining on 21 July 2017. The judge, Mr Recorder Bernard Richmond said the case was ‘tragedy’ and explained the mother-of-one had been manipulated into smuggling the drugs by…

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