An ex-porn model has admitted trying to smuggle more than £18 million of cocaine from Britain to Australia.
Canadian Isabelle Lagace, 28, took the class A drug on board the £11,000-per-head Sea Princess cruise ship that sailed into Sydney.
She
documented her journey with dozens of social media posts taken at
stunning locations including the US, South America and Pacific.
But Australian Border Force officers were waiting when the ship docked in Sydney on the 51st day of the 68-day cruise.
Isabelle Lagace has appeared in many racy photoshoots
Police
alleged Lagace, her travelling companion Melina Roberce, 23, and and
64-year-old fellow passenger Andre Tamine were part of a "very
well-organised syndicate" to smuggle drugs.
Australian federal police said the illegal shipment was one of the largest ever of its kind, reports the Sydney Morning Herald .
The former porn model's lawyer Louis Ialenti entered the guilty plea at a courthouse in Sydney on her behalf.
The action-packed cruise took them across the world (Photo: instagram/belliszaa)
They posed in bikinis in many stunning locations (Photo: instagram/belliszaa)
The 95kg of drugs were worth $31 million in Australian dollars and were spread across four suitcases.
The
cruise began in Southampton and the social media posts show Lagace and
Roberce at locations including New York, Bermuda, Ecuador, Tahiti,
Colombia, Peru and New Zealand.
The maximum penalty for smuggling cocaine in Australia is life imprisonment.
Roberce and Tamine have not entered pleas yet.
Two Nigerians, Okafor Ifeanyi Anthony and Adibe Paschal were arrested at Phnnom Penh International Airport on Monday, for smuggling 1.27 kilograms of cocaine inside their stomachs.
The men identified flew from Nigeria to Vietnam, via Qatar, and then to Cambodia, using Qatar Airways flight Q970.
"When the [authorities] detained them at the airport, he found some substances which they carried in their hands," said In Song, an official at the Anti-Drug department at the Ministry of Interior. "They carried this substance to deceive us."
"Police confiscated several bags of the mysterious brown powdered substance but it did not test positive for drugs.The drugs that they hid were in their stomach," said Song.
Police extracted the drugs by ordering the Nigerians to eat laxatives and excrete them on Tuesday and Wednesday. Song said that the Nigerians were likely bound for Pattaya in Thailand.
Emma Coronel, the wife of Mexican billionaire drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, was filmed leaving the prison of Ciudad Juarez, the border state of Chihuahua where he's incarcerated after visiting him for 45 minutes.
Emma was filmed as she left the prison by Mexican television outlet Univision. The drug pin's wife was seen asking the TV station not to film or follow her around but they refused. The news agency is claiming that El Chapo has been receiving 'conjugal' visits from his wife, which is against jail policy.
Liverpool star Mamadou Sakho could face 12-month ban for failing drugs test.
The Merseyside club confirmed that the French international is under investigation from UEFA for breaking doping regulations.
It is understood that Sakho failed the test after Liverpool’s Europa League victory over bitter rivals, Manchester United last month.
Traces of a banned fat-burning substance are believed to have been found in his sample.
Liverpool's manager Jurgen Klopp decided against picking him for Saturday's 2-2 draw with Newcastle until UEFA's investigation is complete after analysis of a “B” sample on Tuesday.
26-year-old Sakho, now faces a ban of up to two years if proven guilty of the offence although similar offences have been punished with between six and 12-month penalties.
This could rule him out of France’s squad for the Euro 2016.
FIFA sent a warning to players in September 2013, telling them about the dangers of taking fat burners.
fed with drugs when caught is set to be passed in Indonesia, as the National Narcotics Agency bid to tackle the country's drug problem. In Indonesia, the death penalty is already existent for Drug peddlers who are caught but the country's drug enforcement division are thinking of legalizing new stricter laws.
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Paris Jackson has revealed she is struggling with addiction as she hit out at fans on Instagram.
The daughter of the late King of Pop Michael Jackson-
who died in 2009 - hit out at the "ridiculous" expectations people had
for her father, and insisted she is under similar pressure.
Commenting
on an Instagram photo, the 17-year-old ranted: "This if f***ing
ridiculous. I am expected to literally sit on my ass all day replying to
comments people leave me (positive and negative)?
