Drug smuggling pals found with 35kg of cannabis in their luggage at UK airport – after saying they’d been on shopping spree in New York
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14564939/drug-smugglers-kg-cannabis-luggage-UK-shopping-New-York.html
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I’m curious how different the mugshots are compared to the generic facetuned pictures here!
I’m guessing that they did it to fund all that Botox and lip fillers. Dickheads!!!
both suspended sentences. joke justice system.
Wow. I’m absolutely 100% sure that had they been the other gender they would still have gotten suspended sentences for importing large amounts of banned substances.
Why would you risk this for what will ultimately be a couple of grand? Idiots.
“Both initially women said they had packed their own cases”
What are they now?
Sniffer dogs could smell those cases from a long distance. There was never a chance that this was going to be successful. Sentance seems very light even for the UK.
You can just see the crushed velvet sofas, bright white rendering on the house, grey PVC windows and Range Rover Evoque with these two.
If this was two fellas, they wouldn’t be “vulnerable” because of their financial situation, they’d be battle hardened drug dealers.
Two tier justice.
Just knew when I saw their pictures that they would get pathetic sentences.
They even threw in the customary sob story “they haven’t committed any offences since and one just became a mother 🥹”.
I inclined to believe her, she has an honest face.
Two broke girls
The real two tier justice system.
I have a friend who got caught smuggling from Netherlands and got six years, OK it wasn’t weed but still.
Love how they start the article ‘the glamorous’ not really sure that should matter,surely we should be using words like scummy or stupid
I’ve just got back from the moon and I can confirm that those teeth were visible during my space-walk 👄
Just fucking legalise it already. Anyone who wants to smoke it does since it’s so easy to come by but instead of making money off it through tax we enable criminals.
“Glamorous”
Erm, what?
So the one who carried the most drugs got a lighter sentence. Wouldn’t that suggest Bannister was either the organising individual or had a prior conviction.
She did particularly well to get a suspended sentence. Particularly as she wasn’t the one who produced a baby prior to sentencing.
We could legalise, tax and regulate. Maybe plug that budget hole a bit. Fucking dumb law.
Lmao …. Suspended sentences AGAIN.
If these were 2 black dudes they would have been in prison immediately and don’t try to tell me otherwise.
Who the hell is smuggling weed these days? It’s not the 1960s anymore
Who even imports weeds, it’s 2025. Grow it yourself haha.
When it comes to mitigation and so on during a sentencing trial, the defendants get credit for being remorseful and so on. I assume much was made of that.
However, then you see the comments they make on social media:
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Taking to social media after walking free from the dock, Bannister said: ‘Thank you for the people who have stood by us [during] truly the most mentally and emotionally challenging times of our life.
>’15 months of torture. HUGE lessons learnt. A LOT of tears along the way. But stood by each others side no matter what.
>’A true friendship which will never be broken which was proven today holding hands not knowing the outcome.
>’Finally some closure and moving forward with our life. Ready for the biggest fresh start and realising how important freedom really is. Levi Whalley no matter what people have said we really have an unbreakable friendship.’
Just vacuous self-serving bullshit.
I’m not a hang ’em/flog ’em person as a rule, but they seem to have got off really lightly for such a massive stash of cannabis!
What absolute twonks. Silly girls.
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America seems like the dumbest place to smuggle cannabis from.
This is disgusting. They should have gotten the jail time appropriate to the crime. This ‘justice’ is unfair.
35kg is quite the amount.
Why the hell were they smuggling weed in anyway, it’s literally everywhere over here.
In 2009 when I was 18, I was blind drunk jumping on a car bonnet shouting ‘football friend’.
Don’t even remember doing it, and it’s totally out of character for me. Had character statements from family members in government, and even one from the local mayor who knew me and my family.
Anyway, I got a harsher sentence than this pair.
Who the fuck smuggles cannabis into the UK. We have the strongest, best quality on the planet, being grown in every boarded up shop and house across the country.
It’s the fail mail…..
Glamorous???…fuck me, I’ve had more glamorous shits than those two.
That’s a lot of ducking weed. Were there checked bags shipping containers ?
Pair of them should have been jailed , imagine if the drugs had been found in the US 🤔
I wonder why they only posted a photo of the woman…
They did go shopping, except it was downtown for some weed. Dumb bints deserve everything that gets thrown at them.
I’m guessing from the sentencing that they are not Black .
ah the good ole classic two tier sentencing
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