A gangster’s moll was jailed for eight years today

A gangster’s moll was jailed for eight years today (Weds) after her diary revealed her role in a massive heroin smuggling plot.

Pretty Meeta Shah, 23, left damning entries in her journal describing her work for her idol, Abdul ‘Shamin’ Rob.

She described her hero Rob, 21, as a ‘drugs baron’ and glamourised his pnds stlg 40,000 a week lifestyle.

Customs officers found the diary after Shah had 4.

8 kilos of heroin from Istanbul delivered to the home of her hardworking parents.

The crate contained kebab shop equipment with drugs with a street value of pnds stlg 400,000 hidden inside its hollow planks.

The judge, Mr Recorder Gregory Mitchell, QC, said he took into account the devastating effect the conviction has had on Shah’s family.

‘You committed this offence because you were corrupted by Rob,’ the judge said.

‘In these very exceptional circumstances I impose a sentence of less than ten years.

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Customs had tracked the deadly consignment from East Midlands airport to Miss Shah’s parental home at (90) Conway Road, Southgate, north London.

Shah claimed she had been duped by Rob into receiving the contraband.

But her private jottings nailed her and she was convicted of drug smuggling after a week-long trial at Inner London Crown Court.

In the diary she complained about boyfriends and the hassles of living with her parents.

In one entry she wrote: ‘I had an interesting day today.

I went to meet Shamin.

‘He told me what he does.

He’s a drugs baron.

I knew he was involved in Class A.

‘He has people all over the world to supply him with heroin and cannabis.

He brings it through customs.

‘He earns up to pnds stlg 40,000 a week.

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Another entry included Shamin warning her off credit card fraud – which she was mulling over as a way out of her cash crisis.

Instead he suggested money laundering as a safer criminal option.

‘I told him (Shamin) how I wanted to leave work and do the credit card thing.

‘But Shamin told me a lot of people he knows get caught doing it.

He said if I really needed money he said he’d let me earn some from him.

‘I could go to the US with him in January and take pnds stlg 10,000, give it to someone and come home, and I’ll get pnds stlg 3-4,000.

Shah also complained about being in debt to her sister ‘who is loving every minute of it’ – and that her job only pays pnds stlg 14,000 a year ‘which is s**t’.

Then from being penniless her fortunes were suddenly transformed.

Later in October she wrote: ‘Shamin is being shabby, because I need him to make money, but he’s being slow about everything.

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Within six weeks the package arrived at her doorstep, and Martin Griffith, prosecuting, said.

‘The diary details how she is going to make money through the good offices of the drugs baron.

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Customs officers pretending to be DHL delivery men dropped the package with her name at her home on November 22 last year.

She even roped her father – who had been working night duty – to help load the heavy crate into a cab.

Unwitting cabbie Anand Dawara, from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, was then asked to take the box to (2) Queens Crescent, Camden.

But the address did not exist and Mr Dawara left the box in the street.

Rob went to collect the box at Exmouth Mews but was captured by customs officers.

Police swooped later that night on Shah, who said: ‘Drugs? Oh my God’ when arrested.

In evidence, Miss Shah said she had been ‘duped’ by Rob, and that her diary entries had been ‘misunderstood’.

But after two hours deliberation the jury convicted her of being knowingly involved in the importation of class A drugs on November 21 last year.

Miss Isabel Dakyns defending Shah, said she the diary showed was was ‘naive, immature, easily impressed, easily influenced – essentially a teenage girl.

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‘She’s not a drugs baron, but someone who has been used.

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As the guilty verdict was announced, members of Shah’s family and several friends who filled the public gallery sobbed quietly.

Rob, of (108) St Andrews Road, Barking, Essex had already admitted importation of class A drugs.

As Rob is also wanted by the Belgian authorities to serve a six year jail term there, sentencing was delayed until 20 July.

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