A Latvian woman who spent two days wandering around Dublin Airport unaware that she had €183,000 worth of cocaine hidden in her luggage has been given a partly suspended sentence.
The folders of photographs were returned to her and she was instructed to travel further to Dublin. She said she was advised to meet with another Brazilian man at the airport to hand over the photographs and he would provide her with her ticket home. He accepted that she was “clearly disorientated” when she was discovered by officers in the airport and that she had been “used by others”.
The drugs were discovered concealed between two photographs that had been laminated together back to back, and there were 75 sets of these paired photographs which were contained in two folders. “He says very candidly that this woman didn’t know about the presence of the cocaine,” Judge Nolan said before he added that she unfortunately lost her phone and was “at a loss of what to do”.