A mother and son who plotted to smuggle 14 kilos of cocaine into the UK have been jailed, following a National Crime Agency investigation.

Amanda Meadowcroft, 53, of Darwen, Lancashire, was stopped by Border Force officers at Manchester Airport in April 2025 after returning to the UK from the Dominican Republic.

At the time she was serving a suspended sentence for a previous smuggling conviction.

She was arrested alongside another woman who was caught with 14 packages of cocaine, worth approximately £294,000, in her luggage.

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