Awor Ocer Lucy, a 42-year-old Ugandan, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for smuggling more than 2 kg of heroin into China.
Awor Ocer Lucy, a 42-year-old Ugandan, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve for smuggling more than 2 kg of heroin into China.The woman was seized by customs officials at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport after drugs were found in her luggage on April 11.Bernard Sogbossi from the Republic of Benin and Sunday Ogbonna Okah from Nigeria each received life sentences for attempting to smuggle 200 g and 900 g of heroin respectively through the same airport in April.Filipino Balachawi Vilma Tuguinay was sentenced to 15 years in jail for smuggling 128 g of heroin into Guangzhou.The 31-year-old entered China through Shenzhen airport. She was arrested at a Guangzhou hospital after reporting with a stomachache on Feb 28 two weeks after swallowing the plastic-wrapped heroin when she left for China. All four foreigners were convicted at the Guangzhou intermediate people’s court yesterday.“The verdicts sound alarm bells for foreign smugglers,” Li Zhongyuan, a press official at the co...