A 24 -year -old British woman has been sentenced to two years suspended by a court in Germany for smuggling drugs from Thailand.
Cameron Bradford, Kobworth, from Hurtfordshire, was arrested on 22 April at Munich Airport while traveling from Bangkok.
The Munich district court heard how Bradford worked as an escort for a person in Britain, who threatened him, asked him to go to Thailand to raise something for him.
After returning to Britain, customs authorities in Munich found 20 kg (about 45LB) marijuana in their suitcases.
He told the court that when he was robbed by a regular customer for earning a week, he was threatened by the man for whom he worked, Joseph Coleman, who usually took 60% of his earnings.
Bradford said she shouted at her, assuming that she had established the situation, and told her that she would not work as an escort for her again, the court heard.
She said she tried to run away from her, and went with her young son, but was caught by Mr. Coleman who said the only way to solve the problem was to go to Thailand.
“I was really scared,” he told the court.
On 11 April, Bradford left Britain and reached Phuket in Thailand on 12 April, on flights he said that Mr. Coleman had bought.
A few days later she moved to Bangkok, after which what she said was the instructions of Shri Coleman.
There he was given a suitcase, he was swapped to his bag of clothes.
In transit at Munich Airport, to return to Britain, German customs authorities found marijuana in suitcases.
He told the court that he did not know what was in the case, which was closed.
“I am not a criminal,” he said. “I don’t know what I was doing.”
Judge Wilfred Dudek said Bradford’s life was not well. She was through an early pregnancy and mixed with the wrong people.
He said he felt strange that he did not doubt what was in the case, but he admitted that she was under pressure.
Bradford said that she was never so sorry in her life and what she wanted to do was going to her parents and her seven-year-old son’s house.
She said that she wanted a normal life.
