Jail for probation officer caught with £20,000 worth of cocaine in bra
12.04.08
A South Yorkshire probation officer who had fallen in to debt hid cocaine in her bra in an attempt to smuggle it into the country. Mandy Base, 44, was stopped at Gatwick when she arrived on a flight from Trinidad on February 8. Customs officers searched her and discovered drugs worth around £20,000 hidden in her bra, Croydon Crown Court was told.
Ms Base was £15,000 in debt and said that she had agreed to carry the drugs for a man she had been dating in exchange for £5000. The court heard that she has lost her job as a probation officer, which she had held for 12 years, and her home as a result of her actions.
Judge Warwick McKinnon told her: ‘As a probation officer, you would know only too well the great deal of harm that can be caused by drugs.’ She was jailed for 4 years after pleading guilty to unlawful importation of drugs, with a travel restriction order that prevents her from going abroad for 2 years following her release.
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