A woman who agreed to smuggle 30kg of cannabis worth £79,000 into Britain in exchange for a free holiday and £10,000 cash sobbed as she was spared jail.
Kiala Wyles, a 22-year-old care home worker, agreed to the plot in exchange for a 20-day break in Thailand.
She was caught red-handed by Border Force officials when she stepped off a flight at Manchester Airport on July 24 this year.
Had she been caught in the Far Eastern country, she could have faced a maximum punishment of life in jail or even the death penalty.
But, after Wyles pleaded guilty to importing class B drugs, a judge in Manchester spared the defendant – who had spent a month on remand – due to her troubled childhood and ‘genuine remorse’.
