OnlyFans model allegedly caught with 'vacuum-packed' drugs haul on flight
Ciara Wilson is just the most recent British female smuggler to have been accused of illegally transporting drugs worth thousands of pounds
An OnlyFans model has been accused of trying to smuggle '60 vacuum-packed packages' of Thai cannabis into Spain.
Clara Wilson (36) is facing four years behind bars and potential fines of over £750,000 if she is found guilty.
The unemployed mum-of-four has been charged with drug offences after more than £200k worth of cannabis was allegedly discovered in her two suitcases at El Prat airport in Barcelona.
Wilson, from Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire, was held by the Civil Guard on January 20 after flying into the Spanish city on a Qatar Airways flight from Bangkok stops in both India and Qatar.
Clara Wilson
She was taken into custody at a prison near Barcelona two days after her arrest, where she awaits a trial.
According to a three-page indictment see by The Sun, 'police found 60 vacuum-packed packages containing a green-coloured substance that tested positive for marijuana'.
'The substance weighed 34,074 grams', in suitcases Wilson had previously checked in.
It added: 'A subsequent analysis by the National Toxicology Institute of a 55-gram sample of the substance confirmed it as cannabis.'
Clara Wilson
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Public prosecutors believe the drugs were being shipped into Spain by Wilson where It would be sold to third parties on the black market'. They said its value would have been €213,991 (£180,820.26).
Ms Wilson is just the most recent British female smuggler who have been accused of illegally transporting drugs worth thousands of pounds.
Bella May Culley
Bella May Culley (18) sparked a massive international search operation in after she was reported missing while she was believed to be holidaying in Thailand.
However, the teen, from Billingham, County Durham, later emerged 4,000 miles away in Georgia where she had allegedly being caught carrying 30 pounds (of cannabis into the former Soviet nation.
Meanwhile, Charlotte May Lee (21) from Coulsdon, south London, is facing 25 years locked in a hellhole Sri Lankan jail after police allegedly discovered 46kg of 'Kush' - a synthetic strain of cannabis - in her suitcase
Michaela McCollum, of the infamous Peru Two, has spoken about what she sees as similarities in both cases to her own particularly that of Culley, who has told the court in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi that she is pregnant.
McCollum at the time of her arrest
Ms McCollum, from Dungannon in Co Tyrone, and Scotswoman Melissa Reid, both served just over two years in prison after they were caught with 12kg of cocaine in Lima airport in August 2013.
Reid was released from prison in June 2016 and immediately returned to Britain, while McCollum arrive back to Dublin airport in August of that year.
McCollum and Reid who had never met prior to their arrest, say that they were coerced into smuggling the cocaine while working in Ibiza.
Charlotte May Lee
Referring to Culley, McCollum told MailOnline: 'Her mum had reported her missing, then it emerged that she'd been arrested.
'There were such parallels with my case – except it was just in a different country. I couldn't help but feel bad for them.
'Whatever they have done, it's so young to be caught up in something like this, and I know what they are going to go through. And their families. It's the worst thing anybody can have to face.'
'As a mum, I can't even begin to imagine what it would be like to give birth in that sort of place, and to potentially have the child taken from you and put into care,' she added about the case of Ms Culley.
"That adds a whole new, terrifying, dimension. It's just incredibly sad.
'I don't know the circumstances in detail here,' she added, 'but I do know that of all the women I came across who had been involved in drug smuggling, only about 10% were doing it as a business, who knew the risks and accepted them,' she said.
'The vast majority were the victims of some sort of coercion, usually by men. Prisons all over the world are full of women who have been caught up in something like this. And the men at the top rarely get caught.
'The men who pulled all the strings in my case were never held to account.'
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