A British woman caught smuggling £15million of cocaine into America has avoided a 60-year jail term and will be home in two years after agreeing to a plea deal.
Kim Hall, 29, was arrested at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport last summer when customs officers discovered 43 kilos of the Class A drug stuffed into two suitcases.
The Middlesbrough woman was initially facing a sentence that could have kept her behind bars for most of her life after being charged with possession with intent to distribute.
But a court in Illinois has now sentenced her to six years in jail after she admitted the offence, a punishment that will be cut in half under US federal rules.
With the year she has already served on remand included, Hall is expected to return home in around 24 months.
