Beth Crocker secures acquittal of cocaine smuggler who admits sham marriage.

Beth Crocker represented FT who was stopped at Birmingham airport with 4.4kilos of cocaine in her suitcase.  FT was stopped having spent a week in Jamaica.  She denied all knowledge of the drugs in her case but interrogations of her telephone revealed suspicious communications with persons in Jamaica and the UK during a period that covered 3 return trips to the island.  FT told the jury at Birmingham Crown Court that she was engaging in a sham marriage with a Jamaican man but maintained her denial in relation to the drugs.  She was unanimously acquitted.