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Grandmother, 77, smuggled £1million of cocaine in her Motability car
Daily Mail, UK ^ | September 29, 2008 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 09/29/2008 9:01:03 AM PDT by yorkie

A 77-year-old grandmother is facing a lengthy jail sentence after smuggling £1million of cocaine into the country in her Motability car. Ambrozine Heron and her daughter Paulette Chambers, 49, were caught with a car full of the Class A drug as they tried to drive through Dover ferry port. The pair made 14 trips to the continent to collect their shipments from Holland and would fool customs officials by using the ailing granny as a cover for their smuggling. But the family business came unstuck when Heron's Nissan Pathfinder was stopped at Dover by customs who discovered 40 food tins containing the pure cocaine

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: cocaine; drugs; granny; smuggle

1 posted on 09/29/2008 9:01:04 AM PDT by yorkie
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To: yorkie
You have to understand, there is no Freddie or Fanny in the UK!

...everyone deserves a home, it's only fair.

2 posted on 09/29/2008 9:05:30 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: TexasCajun
'I don't smoke or drink. What am I doing with drugs?'

LOL! "That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!" LOL!

3 posted on 09/29/2008 9:12:45 AM PDT by yorkie (For God so loved the world, that He DIDN'T send a committee.........)
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To: yorkie

So what about the other 13 million?


4 posted on 09/29/2008 9:13:40 AM PDT by Delta 21 ( MKC USCG - ret)
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Ambrozine is simply an entrepreneur importing blow for the brothers and football hooligans.
5 posted on 09/29/2008 9:16:32 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: yorkie

“A” for initiative.

“Lengthy jail sentence” could mean “life.”


6 posted on 09/29/2008 9:18:46 AM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Man, that's stupid ... even by congressional standards.)
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To: TexasCajun

7 posted on 09/29/2008 9:27:53 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: RobinOfKingston
“Lengthy jail sentence” could mean “life.”

Aaaah. But, what does life mean?

Certainly, in many cases, not until the prisoners death.

8 posted on 09/29/2008 9:29:43 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: yorkie

Be careful how much you laugh at this if you have ever b!tched about being slowed down at the airport while pore ol granny is searched in her wheelchair.


9 posted on 09/29/2008 9:31:50 AM PDT by freedomlover (Make sure you're in love - before you move in the heavy stuff)
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