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Drug Trafficking: South African Woman Jailed 25 Years For Importing 5.75kg Heroin
The court said the woman pleaded guilty and will serve concurrent terms after NDLEA operatives found 14 blocks of heroin in two suitcases.
- On Thursday, the Federal High Court in Abuja sentenced 38-year-old South African citizen Will Jessica Ann to 25 years in prison for smuggling 5.75 kilograms of heroin into Nigeria through Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport.
- Authorities arrested Ann on July 6 after she arrived from Doha on Qatar Airways Flight QR1433; she initially denied owning the luggage despite using her three-year-old son to bypass airport security.
- Investigators linked Ann to a transnational drug ring operating from Cambodia alongside her partner Jan Coenraad De Jager, arrested in Johannesburg on July 27 while attempting to traffic 3.2 kilograms of drugs.
- Presiding judge Justice Obiora Egwuatu handed down concurrent terms of 15 and 25 years, rejecting pleas for leniency; he stated "crime does not pay" and noted the law is not ruled by "emotions."
- NDLEA Chairman Buba Marwa praised the conviction, stating Nigeria will not serve as a "soft landing" for international drug cartels amid renewed diplomatic friction between Nigeria and South Africa over immigration policies.
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Drug Trafficking: South African Woman Jailed 25 Years For Importing 5.75kg Heroin
Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced a 38-year-old South African woman, Will Jessica Ann, to 25 years in prison for smuggling 5.75 kilogrammes of heroin into Nigeria through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
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