Woman charged over �40,000 City Airport cocaine seizure
Published:
12:16 PM April 12, 2011
Updated:
9:51 AM October 13, 2020
A woman has been charged with attempting to smuggle �40,000-worth of cocaine into the UK through the Royal Docks-based London City Airport.
Catherine Gibson, 57, was arrested after she arrived on a flight from Amsterdam on Sunday.
She had previously flown to the Netherlands from Argentina.
Around one kilo of the drug was discovered in wrapped packages inside a suitcase.
Gibson, of Queen Margaret Drive, Glenrothes, was charged with attempting to import class A drugs.
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She was due to appear before Crawley magistrates today.
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