South African 'drug mule' has sentence halved

The Court of Criminal appeal has halved the seven-year prison sentence imposed on a South African 'drug mule' and mother of three who was caught with almost €80,000 worth of cannabis in her suitcase at Dublin Airport.

Last March, Sasha Lee Whitehead (aged 34), a legal secretary and divorced mother of three children, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to being in possession of the drugs worth €79,536 for sale or supply at the Airport on June 11, 2007. She was sentenced to seven years in jail by Judge Desmond Hogan.