Model ‘tried to smuggle drugs to Ireland’
Model who tried to smuggle €1.2m heroin into Ireland jailed for 8 yrs
A YOUNG model who tried to smuggle heroin worth €1.27million into Ireland was jailed for more than eight years yesterday.
Tereza Hluskova broke down in tears as a judge sentenced her in Pakistan.
Photos posted on social media showed the 22-year-old wiping away tears at Lahore Sessions Court.
The Czech woman was caught with 9kg of the drug in her luggage at Islamabad International Airport as she tried to head to Ireland via the United Arab Emirates.
She claimed someone had put the heroin in her suitcase in January last year.
But nine witnesses spoke in court and the jury found her guilty of drug trafficking.
The judge had heard the model travelled to Pakistan after meeting a man in Manchester who had allegedly set up a fake photography studio.
But the prosecution witnesses said Hluskova was attempting to smuggle heroin out of Pakistan when she was stopped at customs.
She was on a three-month family visa at the time of her arrest.
Customs officers also spoke during a lengthy trial.
Last year, a Bulgarian man was jailed for three years and four months in the Czech Republic after threatening terror attacks in Pakistan unless Hluskova was released.
Nikolai Simeonov Ivanov, 21, was found guilty of sending threats by email and text message to a TV channel and news website.
He told the court he didn’t think anyone would take his messages seriously given he included his telephone number and email address.