Brit couple charged on suspicion of importing £1m of cannabis from Thailand after returning from holiday in Bangkok
A COUPLE have been charged with smuggling £1million of cannabis from Thailand.
Sian Warren, 34, and Daniel McDonald, 36, were stopped when they returned to Heathrow.
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Sian Warren and Daniel McDonald's dream trip to Bangkok ended with the pair being detained after £1m of cannabis was found in their suitcases
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Daniel, pictured, and Sian were charged with importing Class B drugs
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Sian's dad has insisted that she is innocent of the charges - and only had clothes in her suitcase
National Crime Agency officers found four cases packed with more than 51kg of cannabis.
The pair were charged with importing Class B drugs and appeared the following day at Uxbridge magistrates'
court
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They have been bailed under curfew ahead of a plea hearing on June 26 at Isleworth crown court.
The couple left Salford for a dream holiday to Bangkok last month.
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Sian works as an administrator for Daniel's dad's building
business
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Her dad, Tony, said: 'Sian's not brought anything back, definitely not.
'She had her own suitcase with clothes in it.'
The couple are the latest Brits to be arrested on suspicion of trying to import cannabis from Thailand into either Europe or the UK.
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Brit tourist, 18, reported missing for days in Thailand is arrested on 'drug offences' in Georgia 4,000 miles away
However, it was later revealed that the teen, from Billingham, County
Durham
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She was allegedly carrying 30 pounds (14kg) of cannabis into the ex-Soviet nation.
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Timeline of missing Allan Bryant Jr case November 3 2013: Allan Bryant Jr disappeared on a night out with friends June 2014 : Police Scotland released CCTV of Allan Jr leaving Styx nightclub at 2.02am 2015: Allan's family passed information to police through local contacts that he had gone to a house party the night he vanished 2017: Police searched a house in Glenrothes for 33 days as part of their investigation 2017: Allan's dad Allan Sr voiced fears his son may have had contact with organised gang members weeks before he went missing 2023 : Allan Sr, wife Marie and daughter Amy held a media conference on the 10-year anniversary of the disappearance 'It wasn't until I got a bit older I realised how serious this was.' Advertisement Sophie went on to write that she feels 'bad' for not having as many memories of Allan jr as her older sister Amy 'but all the memories I do have are all good ones'. 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