A reality star has avoided jail after she was caught trying to smuggle £150,000 worth of drugs into the UK on a flight back from Thailand.
Olga Bednarska, 27, was arrested in October after being stopped by customs officers at Manchester Airport with two large suitcases containing 40kg of cannabis.
The influencer, who appeared in series three of the hit Netflix show, claimed this person paid for her flights and wanted her to bring back designer clothes and watches from Phuket.
A court heard that Bednarska, from Poland but living in Manchester, had ‘lived beyond her means’ and accumulated £16,000 of debt.
To pay this off, she had resorted to crime and agreed to fly to Thailand on an all-expenses paid trip to import designer items out of the country in return for £18,000.
Bednarska cried in court as she was spared prison after pleading guilty to being concerned in the fraudulent evasion of a prohibition on the importation of a class B drug.
Judge John Potter handed her a 20-month sentence, which was suspended for two years.
She is a very lucky girl.
