Air stewardess on £120,000 cocaine charge
12 April 2012
An air stewardess appeared in court today charged with trying to smuggle £120,000 worth of cocaine into the UK on a flight from South Africa.
Elphia Dlamini, 42, was arrested at Heathrow on Saturday morning after officials found about 3kg of the Class A drug during cabin crew checks, the UK Border Agency said.
She was a member of the crew on South African Airways flight SA236 from Johannesburg to London.
The drugs, which were discovered by a sniffer dog, had an estimated street value of around £120,000, according to officials.
Dlamini, from Cape Town, appeared at Uxbridge magistrates' court today charged with attempting to import a Class A drug. She was remanded in custody until her next hearing at the same court on July 6.
