Brit OnlyFans model caught trying to smuggle £200k of Thai cannabis into Spain in ANOTHER ‘mule' case
Clara was remanded to a prison near the Catalan capital two days after her arrest and has been held there ever since
'MULE' ARREST Brit OnlyFans model caught trying to smuggle £200k of Thai cannabis into Spain in ANOTHER 'mule' case
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A BRIT OnlyFans model was caught allegedly smuggling nearly £200,000 worth of Thai cannabis into Spain.
Glamorous Clara Wilson, from Huthwaite, Notts, has been charged with a drug running offence after more than 34 kilos of cannabis was found stuffed in her two suitcases at Barcelona's El Prat airport.
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Clara Wilson, from Huthwaite, Notts, has been charged with a drug running offence
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The unemployed mum-of-four has been warned she faces being caged for up to four years and ordered to pay more than £750,000 in fines
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Her arrest comes amid a huge influx of marijuana flooding into Britain from Thailand, where the drug is legal.
Gangs are recruiting travellers to smuggle the drug into the UK, often via other countries in a bid to avoid detection.
Clara, 36, was held as she got off a Qatar Airways flight from Doha on January 20, although it's thought she travelled to Barcelona from Bangkok with stopovers in India and Qatar.
The unemployed mum-of-four has been warned she faces being caged for up to four years and ordered to pay more than £750,000 in fines if convicted.
Clara was remanded to a prison near the Catalan capital two days after her arrest and has been held there ever since as part of her pre-trial detention.
A three-page indictment seen by The Sun states: 'The accused woman was intercepted by the Civil Guard around 9pm on January 20 at Barcelona's El Prat airport after getting off a Qatar Airways flight.
'In two suitcases she had previously checked in, police found 60 vacuum-packed packages containing a green-coloured substance that tested positive for marijuana. The substance weighed 34,074 grams.
'A subsequent analysis by the National Toxicology Institute of a 55 gram sample of the substance confirmed it as cannabis.'
Public prosecutors added in the document: 'The drugs were transported by the accused with the intention of selling it to third parties on the black market where its value would have been EUROS 213,991.'
No trial date has been set, but the indictment shows public prosecutors are pushing for a four-year prison sentence and huge £750,000 fine on conviction.
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Clara, one of the latest in a string of young women to end up in prisons around the world after being accused of drug trafficking, has also been warned that an extra six months would be slapped on top of the potential four years in jail if she fails to pay her fines.
It is not yet clear how she intends to plead and whether she will try to strike a pre-trial plea bargain deal in the hope of getting more lenient treatment.
Under Spanish law, the British model can be held for up to two years in prison before she has to be bailed, but well-placed sources said they expect her to be tried later this year.
A Foreign Office spokesperson said: 'We are supporting a British woman detained in Spain and are in contact with the local authorities'.
Last week, Spanish police went public with the arrests of a British couple aged 33 and 34 held at Valencia airport after 33 kilos of marijuana was found in their luggage.
They claimed they were tourists coming from Thailand.
Bella May Culley, 18, sparked a massive international search operation in early May after she was reported missing while she was believed to be holidaying in Thailand.
However, it was later revealed that the teen, from Billingham, County Durham, had been arrested 4,000 miles away on drug offences in Georgia, allegedly carrying 30 pounds (14kg) of cannabis into the ex-Soviet nation.
And recently, 21-year-old Charlotte Lee May, from Coulsdon, south London, was arrested in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo after police discovered 46 kg of 'Kush' - a synthetic strain of cannabis - in her suitcase.
The former flight attendant, facing up to 25 years in prison if convicted, is claiming she had 'no idea' about the drugs worth up to £1.2 million and insisted they must have been planted in her luggage without her knowledge.
Yesterday, The Sun revealed how cannabis seizures have soared to record highs at UK airports — as Thai smuggling gangs attempt to dominate the British market in the illegal drug.
The amount caught at Heathrow alone last year - 14.7 tons - was almost triple the 5.6 tons snared at all airports during 2023.
Nearly 27 tons of cannabis were seized at British airports last year, 400 per cent up on the previous 12 months.
Some 750 people were caught by specialist cops, way up on the 134 nicked the year before.
Nearly two thirds were flying in from Thailand.
A record 430 suspects were arrested at Heathrow, the National Crime Agency said.
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Brit student Bella May Culley was arrested in Georgia after allegedly carrying drugs into the country from Thailand
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