A woman was yesterday sentenced to four years in jail and fined $798,750 after admitting to swallowing 73 cocaine pellets as well as hiding cocaine wrapped in condoms in her vagina.
Tamera Melville, 23, who was held last Saturday at the Eugene F Correia International Airport where she planned on boarding a flight to Barbados, entered a guilty plea to a charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking when she appeared before Magistrate Rochelle Liverpool at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court.
Melville accepted that on February 20th, while at the Ogle airport, she had 755 grammes of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking in her possession.
The woman was subjected to a physical search around 11 am last Saturday after she was observed acting in a suspicious manner.
At the time she was an outgoing passenger on a Caribbean Airlines flight destined for Barbados.
The police had said that she passed out a quantity of the narcotics, which was in a bulky package wrapped in condoms and in her vagina.
Melville was questioned and subsequently admitted to swallowing 73 narcotics pellets, the police had said.
