An Australian woman has been sentenced to 23 years in a Cambodian jail for attempting to smuggle 2.2kg of heroin to Australia in a backpack.
Ann Yoshe Taylor, 41, wept as she was convicted for drug trafficking charges in a Phnom Penh court on Wednesday. (picture up)
She was sentenced with two other foreigners - Nigerian man Precious Chneme Nwoko, 23, and French girl Charlene Savarino, 19 - after they were arrested in September trying to smuggle the heroin out of Phnom Penh International Airport.
'The trio were charged with illegally cross-border transportation of the drug,' Judge Kor Vandy said.
Taylor and Savarino, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison, were both ordered to pay $US12,500 ($A13,500) fines.
Nwoko, believed to have been the ringleader of the operation, was handed a 27-year jail sentence.
Police alleged Taylor and Savarino were arrested at the airport as they tried to smuggle the heroin out of Cambodia in their backpacks - the pair denied being part of an international drug-trafficking ring.
Taylor admitted to police she had used her backpack to smuggle heroin from the country in July last year, according to The Cambodia Daily.
She had arrived back in Cambodia just days before she was arrested.
'The French woman and the Nigerian man both organised and packaged the drugs in Phnom Penh for the Australian woman to come and take them back to Australia,' General Ouk Hay Seila said.
source:- dailymail.co.uk
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