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Evening Standard
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Anthony France

British beautician facing 60 years in US jail for ‘smuggling’ £15m of cocaine insists: ‘I’m not a bad person'

A British woman accused of smuggling £15 million worth of cocaine in her suitcases has pleaded her innocence and claimed she thought she was carrying two bags of cash.

Beautician Kim Hall, 28, from Middlesbrough, was stopped at Chicago’s O’Hare airport as she prepared to board a connecting flight from Mexico to Manchester on August 18.

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