A former flight attendant was busted earlier this month after smuggling a deadly new drug made of human bones while in a small South Asian country.
As The New York Post reported on Sunday, 21-year-old Charlotte May Lee from the United Kingdom was arrested at the Bandaranaike Airport in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo on May 12 after carrying suitcases full of a drug called “kush,” which originated in West Africa. The total stash totaled 100 pounds.
This new drug kills at least a dozen people per week in the African country of Sierra Leone.
Lee, though, is pleading her innocence. Her lawyer, Sampath Perera, told the BBC that the drug was planted in her suitcases without her knowledge.
Perera added that Lee was working in Thailand but was forced to leave because her 30-day Thai visa was about to expire. That is when she decided to take a three-hour flight to Sri Lanka while she waited for her visa to be renewed.
Now, Lee is being held in brutal conditions in a jail north of Colombo, where she sleeps on a concrete floor. She faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of smuggling.
Lee not only reiterated her lawyer’s claims in an interview with the Daily Mail from the prison, but also claimed she knew who planted the drug.
“I had never seen them (the drugs) before. I didn’t expect it all when they pulled me over at the airport. I thought it was going to be filled with all my stuff,” Lee told the outlet.
“They must have planted it then,” she said. “I know who did it.”
As the Post notes, kush can have several dangerous side effects once consumed. These include individuals falling asleep while walking, collapsing unexpectedly, and even wandering into traffic.
One of the drug’s ingredients is human bones. Kush is so addictive that grave robbers have been raiding cemeteries in Sierra Leone for an opportunity to produce it.
Sierra Leone’s President, Julius Maada Bio, declared a state of emergency over kush last year. Security has also reportedly been strengthened in graveyards to stop grave robbers from digging up skeletons.
Bio has branded Kush a death trap and said it poses an “existential crisis” to the country.
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