As her plane soared high into the sky above Bangkok, Charlotte May Lee wasted no time getting settled in.

SriLankan Airlines Flight UL 405 had barely left the runway before the 21-year-old part-time beautician from Surrey slapped on a hydrating in-flight facial mask and stuck in her earphones.

If the former Tui air stewardess was nervous about what lay in store for her in Sri Lanka then she showed no sign.

A brief video filmed just a few minutes into her three-hour 15-minute flight and immediately posted on TikTok shows her staring defiantly into the camera as the Thai coastline disappears through the window behind her.

She didn't look quite so cocky in the police mugshot taken later that day at Bandaranaike International Airport after a staggering 101lb (46kg) of super-strong, synthetic 'kush' cannabis was found stashed in her luggage.