A British OnlyFans model has been jailed for three years after trying to smuggle nearly £200,000 worth of drugs into Spain.
Clara Wilson, 36, from Huthwaite, Nottinghamshire, was arrested at Barcelona’s El Prat airport after travelling from Thailand with more than 34 kilos of cannabis in her suitcase.
She was remanded to a local jail by an investigating judge and learnt in March public prosecutors wanted her caged for four years and fined more than £750,000 after being charged.
Wilson has since admitted wrongdoing as part of a plea bargain deal after being offered a more lenient punishment ahead of her full trial.
Clara, the latest young British woman to be caught in airport drug busts, accepted a three-year prison sentence and a £185,000 fine matching the estimated value of the cannabis.
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Her defence lawyer Yaiza Garcia told Barcelona’s Criminal Court Number 23 she wanted the sentence suspended but a state prosecutor opposed the application, and a decision was put off to a later date.
Wilson was arrested as she got off a flight from Bangkok.
Police held her after finding 60-vacuum packed packages containing a green-coloured substance weighing 34,074 grams that tested positive for cannabis.
Public prosecutors said in an indictment drafted before her trial: ‘The drugs were transported by the accused with the intention of selling it to third parties on the black market where its value would have been €213,991.’
The Brit model has been warned she will be jailed for another two months if she fails to pay her six-figure fine.
The time she has already served in Brians 1 Prison near Barcelona would be taken into account in determining her extra jail time after sentence.
Earlier this week it emerged British ‘drug mule’ Bella Culley’s family have been given more time to pay a fine which could allow her to go free.
The 19-year-old, who is six months pregnant, sparked a massive international search operation in early May after she was reported missing while she was believed to be holidaying in Thailand.
It was later revealed that Bella, from Billingham, County Durham, had been arrested 4,000 miles away in Georgia after allegedly carrying 30 pounds (14kg) of cannabis into the ex-Soviet nation.
Charlotte Lee May, 21, a former cabin attendant from south London, remains in custody in Sri Lanka after being arrested in May with 46kg of cannabis she allegedly attempted to smuggle into the country on a flight from Thailand.
Last month a British tourist travelling from Benidorm to Ibiza was arrested after police discovered nearly £300,000 worth of cocaine in his car.
The 27-year-old was apprehended after trying to board a ferry from the Costa Blanca resort of Denia to the Balearic island.
Cops said he reacted to an initial stop by handing them a bottle with a small amount of cannabis resin inside in an apparent attempt to throw them off the scent.
They discovered the seven kilos of cocaine during a full search in the storage compartment between the two front seats.
Video footage of the drug discovery released by the Civil Guard showed an officer hauling the narcotics which had a lizard logo on them out of the ‘hidden compartment’ and the Brit being taken away in handcuffs in a T-shirt and shorts.
Well-placed sources said at the time the cocaine had a potential street value of around £280,000 and would have fetched a higher price in islands like Ibiza than on the Spanish mainland.
On Tuesday Brit Martin Renwick Hunter, 69, was jailed for nearly four years after being convicted of trying to smuggle almost £100,000 of drugs onto a Spanish car ferry.
He was stopped as he tried to board the Algeciras-bound vessel in Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta on July 13.
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