Five years for South African drug 'mule'

A South African woman who was used as a “mule” and a “plaything” by drug traffickers has been jailed for five years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Rochell Pieters (aged 27) was caught bringing in €140,000 of cocaine to Dublin Airport from Brazil. When customs officers found the drugs in her bag she said, “they told me they wouldn’t do this.”