A United States citizen broke down in tears at the Providence Magistrate’s Court yesterday after she was sentenced to five years jail for supplying cocaine to be smuggled out of the country. Dawn Saul-Khan maintained her innocence throughout the trial, which lasted almost two years. “I had no knowledge. I had no knowledge,” Saul-Khan shouted as she broke down before Magistrate Leron Daly, who handed down the sentence.
Saul-Khan was initially charged with being in possession of 365 grammes of cocaine for trafficking on October 12th, 2012.
The prosecution’s case, which was led by Assistant Superintendent of Police Stephen Telford, was that Saul-Khan, a registered nurse from New York, had returned to Guyana on October 7th, 2012 and had procured another woman, Shaniqua Johnson and brought her to
