Woman carried 77 cocaine pellets inside her body

A WOMAN arrested at Dublin Airport over the weekend was discovered to be carrying a kilogram of cocaine inside her body.

The 36-year-old Italian was rushed to hospital where doctors found she was hiding 77 pellets of the drug internally. Her potentially lethal excess baggage was estimated by Revenue’s customs officers to be worth a street value of €70,000.

Officers detained the woman after spotting her acting suspiciously when she arrived off a flight from Amsterdam on Saturday. She was questioned about her movements, but quickly admitted she was carrying the drug and was brought to Beaumont Hospital in the city.