(2) A CONSPIRACY TO SMUGGLE HIGH-GRADE

(2)

A CONSPIRACY TO SMUGGLE HIGH-GRADE COCAINE INTO THE UK WAS

DISCOVERED BY CHANCE BECAUSE TWO WOMEN MEMBERS OF THE

PLOT,CHRISTIE EKE,28, AND IGUMA INADE,28, COMPLAINED ABOUT THE

LACK OF HEATING IN THEIR HOTEL ROOM, A COURT HEARD.

‘THESE TWO LADIES COMPLAINED TO THE MANAGERESS THAT ROOM 211

WAS COLD AND ASKED TO BE MOVED.

THE MANAGERESS MOVED THEM TO

ROOM FOUR’, SAID MR STEPHEN WALLER PROECUTING.

‘IT WAS THIS COMPLAINT THAT THE ROOM WAS COLD WHICH , SAY

THE PROSECUTION, LED TO THE DOWNFALL AND ULTIMATE ARREST OF

THESE DEFENDENTS BECAUSE IT LED TO THE DISCOVERY OF THE

COCAINE’, MR WALLER SAID.

POLICE WERE ALERTED AFTER PLUMBER RONALD KNIGHT, CALLED

IN TO CHECK THE HEATING SYSTEM AT THE PARKSIDE HOTEL, SEVEN

SISTERS ROAD, FINSBURY PARK, FOUND A TOILET BAG STUFFED WITH

ONE OUNCE PACKETS OF 70% PURE COCAINE HIDDEN IN THE HOTEL ATTIC,

MR WALLER SAID.

‘WHEN HE OPENED THAT TOILET BAG HE FOUND A NUMBER OF BAGS

WHICH CONTAINED POWDER AND A SET OF SCALES’, COUNSEL ALLEGED.

MORE THAN 800 (822) GRAMS OF THE DRUG WORTH #100,000 WAS

SMUGGLED THROUGH HEATHROW AIRPORT ON NOVEMBER 9 LST YEAR, ACTON

CROWN COURT HEARD.

EKE ADMITTED CARRYING DRUGS ‘FOR KINGSLEY’ WHEN SHE

FLEW FROM LAGOS TO LONDON WITH INADE COUNSEL SAID.

THE TWO WOMEN BOTH CLAIMED TO BE TRADERS VISITING ENGLAND

TO BUY MOTHERCARE CLOTHES FOR RESALE IN NIGERIA, THE COURT

HEARD.

EKE’S BOYFRIEND, PASCHAL IZUONU,29, WHO WAS ARRESTED

WITH HER, ALLEGEDLY ADMITTED TO POLICE HE WAS PAID #1000 TO ACT

AS A MINDER DURING THE FLIGHT.

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THE HOTEL WAS A MEETING PLACE FOR THE TWO WOMEN AND

ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE CONSPIRACY, CHUKWU IGBOKWE,30, ALSO KNOWN

AS KINGSLEY, WHO WAS STAYING IN ROOM THREE AFTER ARRIVING FROM

NIGERIA, MR WALLER ALLEGED.

‘HE BECAME SUSPICIOUS OF POLICE INTEREST IN THE HOTEL AND

MADE ARRANGEMENTS FOR HIMSELF AND OTHERS TO LEAVE THE HOTEL’,

COUNSEL SAID.

BUT HE WAS ARRESTED THAT EVENING IN HIS PARKSIDE ROOM

JUST AS HE WAS ABOUT TO LEAVE, THE COURT HEARD.

POLICE FOUND A ONE OUNCE BAG OF 70% PURE COCAINE IN HIS

ROOM, ALONG WITH A SUPPLY OF PLASTIC BAGS WHICH IGBOKWE CLAIMED

WERE FOR MEDICENES, MR WALLER SAID.

HIS ALLEGED GIRLFRIEND, MEMURAT GIWA-OSAGIE, WHO HAD BEEN

STAYING WITH HIM, WAS ARRESTED LEAVING THE HOTEL, MR WALLER

SAID.

A SEARCH OF HER MAKE-UP BAG REVEALED #2950 IN CASH AND BAG

‘WAS THE SAME PATTERN AS ANOTHER CLOTH BAG WHICH WAS FOUND WITH

THE LARGE QUANTITY OF DRUGS’, COUNSEL ALLEGED.

LAW STUDENT EZECHINGYERE UGOCHUKWU,23,OF MORGAN MANSIONS,

MORGAN ROAD, HOLLOWAY, WAS ARRESTED AFTER HE VISITED IGBOKWE’S

HOTEL ROOM WHILE POLICE WERE THERE.

HE ALLGEDLY TOLD THE OFFICERS IGBOKWE HAD INVITED HIM TO A

NIGERIAN MEAL.

BUT HE ADMITTED HE HAD VISITED IGBOKWE THE PREVIOUS DAY

WHEN IGBOKWE AND ANOTHER MAN, MUSICIAN FRANK CAMPBELL,37, OF

HARDWICK ROAD, WOOD GREEN, ‘DISCUSSED WHAT THEY CALLED THE

MERCHANDISE’, THE JURY HEARD.

CAMPBELL HAS PLEADED GUILTY TO POSSESSING WITH INTENT TO

SUPPLY A SMALL QUANTITY OF HERBAL CANNABIS AND CANNABIS RESIN

FOUND WHEN POLICE SEARCHED HIS HOME AND ANOTHER FLAT HE USED.

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PAPER PACKET OF COCAINE WAS ALSO ALLEGEDLY FOUND.

HE TOLD THE OFFICERS IGBOKWE OFFERED HIM COCAINE BUT HE

REFUSED IT.

‘I TOLD HIM I DIDN’T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT’,

HE ALLEGEDLY SAID.

ALL SEVEN DEFENDENTS DENY CONSPIRING WITH PERSONS UNKNOWN

TO SUPPLY COCAINE BETWEEN NOVEMBER 8 AND 12 LAST YEAR.

IGBOKWE, EKE AND IZUONU DENY SMUGGLING COCAINE ON NOVEMBER

11 1985.

IGBOKWE DENIES POSSESSING 28.

58 GRAMS OF COCAINE WITH INTENT TO

SUPPLY, AND POSSESSING THE SAME AMOUNT ON NOVEMBER 11 LAST

YEAR.

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CAMPBELL DENIES POSSESSING 113 MILLIGRAMS OF COCAINE ON

NOVEMBER 21 LAST YEAR.

THE TRIAL CONTINUES.

ENDS.

LOOKS LIKE SHE*S BEEN WRITING A NOVEL#
WELL, WHAT CAN I SAY, WE GET IT ALL THE TIME
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SEE YOU
BYE.