Student jailed two years over 10 kg cannabis at Glasgow Airport
Zixian Long, 21, was caught with 10 kg of cannabis in a suitcase from Barcelona at Glasgow Airport on 31 December 2017. Convicted after trial at Paisley Sheriff Court, she was jailed for two years on 8 January 2019; her mother had been caught with 10 kg at Edinburgh Airport a day earlier.
Edinburgh art student Zixian Long, 21, was caught with 10 kg of cannabis in a shrink-wrapped suitcase at Glasgow Airport on Hogmanay 2017 after returning from Barcelona.[1][2]Border Force officers found the haul, which a detective said was worth £100,000 broken into street deals or £40,000 wholesale.[1]
Long, who is Chinese and had moved to Britain about ten years earlier, said through an interpreter that her mother had been offered a free trip for bringing back luggage from Barcelona and had asked her along.[1]A Chinese man dropped the suitcase at their Barcelona hotel, and her mother asked her to carry it home.[1]
Her mother Xiaodan Wang, 51, had been stopped at Edinburgh Airport the day before, on 30 December 2017, with 10 kg of cannabis from the same Barcelona trip; both lived in Glasgow’s East End.[2]Long denied importing class B drugs and being concerned in their supply, but was convicted after trial at Paisley Sheriff Court and jailed for two years on 8 January 2019, backdated to her remand that December.[1][2]
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Sentenced 1Cannabis 8.2236 kgPrison 9 months suspended for 12 months
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Charged 2Prison 5 years (Leahy); 3 years and 4 months (Broadbent)
