This from the press:
Two British teenage girls have been sentenced to nine months in prison for trying to smuggle cocaine out of Ghana in laptop bags.
Yasemin Vatansever and Yatunde Diya, both 16, were sentenced by a court in the capital, Accra.
Because they have been in prison since first being arrested last July they have less than three months of the sentence to complete.
The girls, from London, were held on July 2 at Accra's airport after anti-drugs officers found 13lbs of cocaine in two laptop bags they were carrying as they boarded a flight to Britain.
A spokesman for the Ghana narcotics board said the girls will be released on April 18.
He added: "The girls get a second chance not to repeat what they did. The message is clear to everybody. Once you do it and get caught you will pay for it."
He said they will serve the remainder of their sentences at a juvenile detention centre in Accra.
Asked if the girls might be sent home to England to serve out their time, a British High Commission spokesman said such a move would not make sense.
"The crime was committed here, the trial was held here, and that's it," he said.
The head of the girls' legal team had previously said they planned to appeal against the conviction.
Well excuse me if i appear a little underwhelmed by the sentence. Nine months for 13 pounds of drugs and i think we are soft here! With fine English names such as these drug smugglers have i wonder if the British authorities will check on their return to see if the girls are imports to our country? - if so, will they be deported? This governing junta of ours always cease to amaze me and will no doubt do so on this occassion too.
It has been pointed out to me that if what they had was "pure" cocaine you could be looking at dealers here in the uk "cutting" it by a factor of 10 to 20 in this country. So their 13lbs becomes at least 130lbs. Now if you sell at on the street at between £40 and £50 per gram you see that you are looking at half a million if it could not be cut or several million if it could.
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LP. You might like to update your article with the following information. First I must make it clear, that I have never taken, bought or sold cocaine or any drugs. But the Welsh Valleys are small and everyone talks.
If you wanted to pay for a kg of C in Wales you would pay £25,000 that could not be cut but would be ready for street sale.
Because of the way the smaller dealers help boost their money they then sell it in grams which are actually weighed out at .7 grams.
Now If what they had was "pure" you could be looking at dealers "cutting" it by a factor of 10 to 20 in this country. So their 13lbs becomes at least 130lbs.
Now if you sell at on the street at between £40 and £50 per gram(.7)you see that you are looking at half a million if it could not be cut or several million if it could.
from time to time there are news stories that simply make you speechless. This is one of them.
When i see this going on i cant help but think we must be the most gullible race on earth!
On the other hand, i witnessed red ken today stating that he uses public money to prop up failing black and asian businesses in London because its the right multicultural thing to do!
I'm so speechless i cant talk now for a week!
Good to see another post from you. I hope to have the bourne nationalist ready soon.
P.
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