52 year old Spanish woman has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Thailand for smuggling drugs into the country.
María Nieves García Alcaraz, from Torraba, Albacete, was arrested at Bangkok Airport last August after 3.1 kilos of crystal methamphetamine were found in her hand luggage. She’d arrived there on a flight from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, and claimed at the time to have no idea that was carrying drugs.
EFE reports that she told police after her arrest that she’d been given the package by a man from Ghana, who’d asked her to take it with her to Bali.
The accused pleaded guilty at her trial in Bangkok, which the court took into account on deciding her sentence, and commuted her punishment to life imprisonment. Serious drug offences carry the death penalty under Thai law.
EFE notes that an agreement signed between Spain and Thailand in 1983 allows Spaniards sentenced to life imprisonment in Thailand to serve their sentence in Spain, once they have completed the first 8 years of their prison term.
Another Spaniard is currently awaiting trial for possession of cannabis.
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