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Charlotte May Lee/InstagramA British lady has been arrested in Sri Lanka after police allegedly discovered 101lbs (46kg) of the bogus drug kush in her suitcase.
Custom officials posed for footage with luggage of substances they accuse Charlotte May Lee, 21, from south London, of making an attempt to smuggle into the rustic previous this month.
The former flight attendant denies understanding there have been medicine in her suitcase and says she believes they have been planted there.
Ms Lee is being held in a jail north of the south Asian nation’s capital, Colombo, and is touch along with her circle of relatives, her attorney instructed the BBC. She may just resist 25 years in jail if discovered responsible.
Her criminal consultant, Sampath Perera, instructed the BBC his workforce used to be visiting her day-to-day in jail within the town of Negombo, to supply enhance and observe her wellbeing.
A senior officer within the Sri Lanka Customs Narcotics Control Unit mentioned the seizure at Colombo’s Bandaranaike Airport on 5 May used to be the most important in its historical past.
Ms Lee instructed Mail Online on Wednesday: “I had never seen them [the drugs] before. I didn’t expect it all when they pulled me over at the airport.
“I believed it used to be going to be full of all my stuff.”
She told the paper she had been in Thai capital, Bangkok, prior to the flight, and packed her suitcase in her hotel room before heading out for the night.
“They should have planted it then,” she said. “I do know who did it.”
She did not check her bag again before heading to Colombo, where she was arrested on 12 May, said Ms Lee.
Ms Lee went to Sri Lanka as her visa was about to expire and she wanted a trip somewhere nearby before heading back to Thailand, she told the newspaper.
She added that she faces harsh conditions in the prison, including sleeping on a concrete floor.
Ms Lee is said to have flown from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport around the same time as another British woman, Bella Culley, 18, from Billingham, County Durham, who is being held in Georgia on suspicion of drug offences.
A senior customs officer in Sri Lanka told the BBC: “On the similar day, every other passenger who had left Bangkok airport, virtually on the similar time, used to be arrested out of the country. We arrested this girl [Ms Lee] in accordance with profiling.”
He said there had been a massive increase in drugs coming via Bangkok into Sri Lanka.
“This has been an actual nuisance.”
Ms Culley could face up to 20 years in jail or life imprisonment if found guilty.
She is being detained sooner than trial whilst the government investigates the place 26lbs (12kg) of marijuana and 4.4lbs (2kg) of cannabis present in a shuttle bag got here from, and whether or not she used to be making plans on handing it over to somebody else.
