Woman jailed after £1m of cocaine found in luggage at Glasgow airport

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>A woman has been jailed for seven years for attempting to smuggle cocaine worth around £1m &lpar;€1&period;4m&rpar; into the UK hidden in toiletries&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Myrtle McCreath&comma; 53&comma; from Ayr&comma; was arrested at Glasgow Airport on February 26 2014 after arriving on a flight from Sao Paulo&comma; Brazil&comma; via Amsterdam&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>During a search of her baggage&comma; Border Force officers found around 50 containers of face cream&comma; talcum powder and other toiletries&period; Inside&comma; there was a total of 7&period;8 kilos of high-purity cocaine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>McCreath denied knowledge of the drugs&comma; telling National Crime Agency &lpar;NCA&rpar; investigators that she had been in Brazil for a week on holiday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But messages found on her mobile phone showed she had been given a suitcase to carry back to the UK&comma; and was due to take a train to Manchester where she would hand it over&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Officers also discovered that she had been paid 1&comma;000 euro &lpar;£700&rpar; just days before travelling&comma; and had been paid a similar sum for a return trip to Australia via China a few months earlier&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She was found guilty of importing class A drugs following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow in October&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She has now been sentenced to seven years in prison&comma; according to the NCA&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>John McGowan&comma; from the NCA border investigation team at the Scottish Crime Campus in Gartcosh&comma; said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This was a substantial seizure of high-purity drugs with a potential street value of almost £1 million&period; Had it not been seized I’ve no doubt it would have ended up being sold on the streets of the UK&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Using individuals like Myrtle McCreath is a common tactic for the organised crime networks involved in this illegal trade&comma; which is why we are working with law enforcement partners such as Border Force to do all we can to disrupt and bring them to justice&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Murdo MacMillan&comma; head of Border Force Scotland&comma; said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This case should serve as a warning to anyone tempted to try to smuggle drugs&period; Our officers will catch you and you will face prison&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;In making this seizure&comma; 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