Foreign office supporting British woman after reports of drug-smuggling arrest in Sri Lanka

The UK foreign office said they are supporting ‘a British woman who has been arrested in Sri Lanka and are in contact with her family and the local authorities’. Photograph: Alex Segre/Alamy

UK officials have said they are supporting a British woman arrested in Sri Lanka amid reports a former cabin crew member has been accused of smuggling cannabis into the South Asian country.

MailOnline and the Sun reported that Charlotte May Lee, 21, from Coulsdon, south London, was detained at the main airport in the country’s capital, Colombo, on Monday after arriving on a flight from Bangkok.