A drug smuggler has tied the knot with a woman he met while serving a decade behind bars in a Caribbean jail. Paul Cairns enjoyed a traditional Scots wedding to Dominican Republic native Carmen Rosa – with his smuggling accomplice as his best man and another jailed trafficker on the guest list.
Cairns, 35, from Gourock, Renfrewshire, was caught with nearly £500,000 of cocaine at Punta Cana Airport in 2009. He bragged about the lax prison system online before he was released in 2019 – but had to remain on the island until his sentence was served.
Cairns – who fathered a child while in jail – is understood to have proposed to Carmen in 2011. Fellow convicted smuggler Daniel Squires, of Greenock, who served the same sentence, was by his side at his wedding.
