2024-12-05
Brazilian drugs mule swallowed 102 pellets of cocaine to pay off €163 debt
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Passing sentence today, Judge Elva Duffy said Lopes had an initial debt of the equivalent of €163, which escalated due to punitive penalties. Judge Duffy set a headline sentence of five and a half years, but after considering the mitigating factors, she reduced this sentence to three years and nine months and backdated to when Lopes was detained on June 5, 2024.