Czech theatre manager ‘smuggled cocaine through Gatwick’

A Czech theatre manager was caught smuggling £100,000 worth of cocaine through Gatwick Airport after returning from holiday in the Caribbean, a court heard. Jitka Jahodova, 52, was arrested at the busy terminal after a border force officer found over a kilo of the Class A drug sealed and stashed in her suitcase lining on 21 July 2016. Jahodova denied all knowledge of the drugs, telling the officer ‘my bag has been opened’ after landing in the early hours that…