Gavin Waaldijk, the Guyanese convicted of taking over 30 kilogrammes of cocaine into the US in a suitcase, was on Monday sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a New York judge.
Waaldijk pleaded guilty since last year and had expressed remorse alleging, among other things, that he was coerced into smuggling the illegal drug. He had written the court begging for mercy and his lawyers also wrote the court.
In response to letters from him and his lawyers, the prosecution late last month pointed out that the drugs were being smuggled for a family organisation for which he had at one time provided some money.
