Deported Polish drug dealer tried to sneak back to UK through Ireland

A convicted Polish drug dealer freed under the early release scheme and deported tried to re-enter Britain through Ireland a few months later, a court heard.

Married Karolina Mroczek, 32, was jailed for 33 months for possessing cocaine with intent to supply. She was jailed in June, served with a deportation order and released within weeks.

But on Nov 2 she was caught at Holyhead ferry port in Anglesey, north Wales. Although her new passport was legal, immigration officers realised the ID number related to her maiden name of Grochowska and discovered her history, the prosecution said.

Prosecutor Dylan Wagg told Caernarfon Crown Court that in August 2022, Mroczek had been refused entry to Britain. In September 2022 she was arrested and again served with deportation papers.
Numerous attempts to enter country

Elen Owen, mitigating, said Mroczek’s husband of three years lived and worked in London as a forklift driver.

She said: “She has tried to get around the deportation by not fully revealing her previous convictions and coming in knowing she wasn’t supposed to.

“It was a desperate attempt to try and save her marriage. She had pleaded with him to return to Poland to no avail.”

Judge Nicola Jones told the defendant: “You have made numerous attempts to enter the country in breach of the deportation order.”

Mroczek was jailed for six months and told that she would probably face deportation again.

Several recent court cases in north Wales have involved foreign nationals trying to sneak into Britain illegally from Ireland through Holyhead.