Royal Navy wren smuggled £2 million of cocaine on board a warship Asian Leader

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Pair 'part of £2m drug smuggling scam' - Asian Leader: "Two men were involved in a drug smuggling operation in which a Royal Navy wren smuggled £2 million of cocaine on board a warship to bring back to Hampshire, a court has heard.
Teresa Matos picked up 8.51kg (19lb) of cocaine while HMS Manchester was docked at the port of Cartagena in Colombia, South America, last July, Portsmouth Crown Court heard.

The drugs were discovered hidden in the lining of Matos's clothes insider her locker when the Type 42 destroyer arrived in Plymouth, Devon, in August, en route to its home port of Portsmouth.

Andrew Oldland, prosecuting, said: 'These were not, as you might have expected, the proceeds of a successful anti-smuggling exercise. The drugs had been smuggled on board by a wren.'

Raul Beia, 39, Matos's boyfriend, is on trial alongside Dean Langley, 20, accused of importing the illegal drugs."