The Press Association: Pair 'part of £2m drug smuggling scam'

The Press Association: Pair 'part of £2m drug smuggling scam': "Teresa Matos picked up 8.51kg (19lb) of cocaine while HMS Manchester was docked at the port of Cartagena in Colombia, South America, last July, Portsmouth Crown Court heard.
The drugs were discovered hidden in the lining of Matos's clothes insider her locker when the Type 42 destroyer arrived in Plymouth, Devon, in August, en route to its home port of Portsmouth, Hampshire.
Andrew Oldland, prosecuting, said: 'These were not, as you might have expected, the proceeds of a successful anti-smuggling exercise. The drugs had been smuggled on board by a wren.'
Raul Beia, 39, Matos's boyfriend, is on trial alongside Dean Langley, 20, accused of importing the illegal drugs.
The trial has heard that Matos, 36, an Angolan-born steward from Contsworth Court, Gateshead, pleaded guilty to smuggling at a previous hearing. She will be sentenced along with another member of the alleged smuggling gang, Abdul Banda, 34, who has also admitted his part in the conspiracy, on the completion of the trial."