{"id":28007,"date":"2025-05-20T12:52:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T12:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=28007"},"modified":"2025-05-20T12:52:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T12:52:19","slug":"brit-21-faces-decades-rotting-behind-bars-in-sri-lanka-after-trying-to-smuggle-1-2million-worth-of-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=28007","title":{"rendered":"Brit, 21, faces decades ‘rotting behind bars’ in Sri Lanka after ‘trying to smuggle \u00a31.2million worth of drugs’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A former flight attendant is facing up to 25 years in jail over the weekend after being arrested on drug smuggling charges.<\/p>\n

Charlotte May Lee, from Chipstead, Surrey,\u00a0UK<\/a>, was arrested by Sri Lankan\u00a0police<\/a>\u00a0upon her arrival to Bandaranaike International Airport on Monday 12 May.<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old was said to have been found with two suitcases that were stuffed with approximately 46kg of a synthetic\u00a0drug<\/a>\u00a0that is known as ‘kush’.<\/p>\n

Carrying these substances on her\u00a0travels<\/a>\u00a0is illegal and the Brit was promptly thrown behind bars awaiting a trial.<\/p>\n

Kush itself is known as a highly addictive mix of multiple drugs and chemicals, sometimes even including human bones.<\/p>\n

Charlotte, who used to be a flight attendant with Tui, made her way for Thailand from Surrey over two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

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The 21-year-old was said to be vague when explaining that she was meeting a man in the Southeast Asian nation to friends.<\/p>\n

Charlotte spent a night in horrific conditions behind bars in Sri Lanka, with there being 19 other women in the single room and ‘hardly room to lie down’, according\u00a0to<\/a>\u00a0The Sun.<\/p>\n

The part-time beautician was last reported to be waiting for a court date after authorities discovered around\u00a0\u00a31.2 million<\/a>\u00a0worth of drugs in her luggage.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the publication, one family friend admitted: \u201cWe\u2019re frantically worried. She was arrested then seemingly abandoned and is rotting in a jail cell.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s very scared.\u201d<\/p>\n

A second added: \u201cShe\u2019s been told if convicted, because of the size of the drugs haul, she\u2019s looking at between 20 and 25 years in jail.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additionally, British Embassy staff were said to be candid in telling the young Brit that she was ‘going nowhere soon’.<\/p>\n

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Charlotte May Lee used to be a Tui stewardess (Instagram\/charlottemaylee)<\/cite><\/div>\n

As for the drug itself, it is said to be 25 times more potent than opioid fentanyl, as it can be mixed with toxic chemicals, having first appeared in Sierra Leone about four years ago.<\/p>\n

There are no figures on the exact number of deaths yet, though the publication states that kush can have a detrimental effect on user’s\u00a0mental health<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Sierra Leone Psychiatric Hospital said that admissions linked to kush increased by 4,000 percent to 1,865 between 2020 to 2023.<\/p>\n

In fact, they say that 63 percent of its current patients were brought in with problems stemming from kush.<\/p>\n

Authorities state that a National Task Force on Drugs and Substance Abuse has been launched in order to deal with the epidemic.<\/p>\n

The centres opened will be ‘adequately staffed by trained professionals’ to assist those suffering with addiction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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