Wife Arrested After Husband Hid 500,000 Pounds Worth of Heroin in Her Dresses

 

Waseem Anwar Choudry, from Slough, a British taxi driver has been jailed for eight years after using his wife as an unwitting drug mule to smuggle £500,000 of heroin into the UK. 

 

Choudry sewed 7.7lb of the class A drug into eight of his wife Nazreen’s dresses, hoping to conceal it in her luggage but her wife was caught by the border security staff at Heathrow Airport, in London, on June 28.

 

She claimed during questioning that she had been to Islamabad, in Pakistan, for a two-week holiday and that she had no idea she was carrying vast quantities of heroin. She told officers that her husband had given her the dresses and had packed her luggage, according to a statement released by the National Crime Agency.

 

 

Choudry, who had been due to fly back to the UK several days after his wife, never arrived. Instead he tried to enter the country without drawing attention to himself, by taking a train from Paris.

 

 

He was arrested at St. Pancras station in London six weeks after his wife’s arrest, and admitted to packing her luggage and being involved in plotting to smuggle the drugs into the UK.

 

He was sentenced to eight years in jail at Isleworth Crown Court on Saturday. His wife Nazreen was found not guilty of involvement in the smuggling operation at the same court.