A FRAIL 64-year-old Beckton woman who smuggled heroin worth nearly £1 million into Britain has been jailed for 14 years.

Grandmother Shamin Choudhary, who suffers from heart failure, angina, diabetes, hypertension, arthritis and cataracts, smuggled the heroin through Heathrow using a suitcase with a false bottom.

Choudhary, who has two previous convictions for heroin dealing, was planning to fly on to Brussels and Customs officers had intercepted her case while she was in transit, but the flight was cancelled and she returned to her home.

Sentencing her at Isleworth Crown Court, Judge Hezlett Colgan said: "This was a commercial importation of a large quantity of a class 'A' drug.

"If this importation had been successful, this quantity of drugs would have caused widespread misery and degradation and might have led to the death of some of those who took it.

Lyell Thompson, prosecuting, told the court Choudhary was intercepted as she flew from Pakistan via Qatar to Heathrow on her way to Brussels on December 21 last year.

A Customs officer at Terminal Three intercepted her soft-sided suitcase and tested it for drugs.

The heroin turned out to be 7.15 kilos at 100 per cent purity with a street value here of £884,000.

Full story in this week's Recorder

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Granny's £1m Heroin Racket

Was Salaam

omg Subhan Allah... that's so sad.

Hats off to the media for not making big use of the fact that she may be a Musim.. goodness knows we have enough rubbish out there about us

yeh Ditto SD!!!

I was reading thinking... hmmm doesnt say she is muslim/hijabi anywhere....

but seriously SHOCKING!!! you'd think people at her age will be turning to Allah more....

Pfft you never know ey