Navy Cocaine Gang Is Jailed for 41 Years ; Sailor Who Came to Britain As Asylum Seeker Used Warship to Smuggle Drugs From Columbia

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A Royal Navy sailor who came to Britain as an asylum seeker has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years for smuggling Pounds 2 million worth of cocaine into the UK on board a warship.

Teresa Matos picked up 4.94kg of 100 per cent pure cocaine while HMS Manchester had docked at the port of Cartagena in Colombia in July.

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Navy Cocaine Gang Is Jailed for 41 Years ; Sailor Who Came to Britain As Asylum Seeker Used Warship to Smuggle Drugs From Columbia

The drugs were discovered hidden in the lining of Matos's clothes inside her locker when the Type 42 destroyer arrived in Plymouth in August en route to its home port of Portsmouth, Hampshire. Matos, 37, an Angola...

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