UK-based woman to face trial over cocaine-in-rum

The police have been ordered to proceed with the prosecution of United Kingdom-based Guyanese Vanessa Moore, who was charged alongside her ex-boyfriend with attempting to smuggle a quantity of cocaine, hidden in bottles of rum, out of the country at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.

Dwayne King, who was accused by Moore of planting 2.9 kilogrammes of cocaine in the rum bottles that he asked her to take out of the country, was recently found guilty of drug trafficking and sentenced to 60 months in jail.

Although Moore was one of the witnesses against him during his trial, she learned last Friday that