Mum, 27, showed Manchester Airport officers holiday photos - they immediately arrested her when they scrolled through

A woman who secreted almost 100 pellets of cocaine inside and outside her body inadvertently showed Border Force officers pictures of the drug on her phone.

Larissa Lins, 27, had been stopped at Manchester Airport after flying from Brazil. She claimed she had come to the UK to ‘research nice places’ having flown through France and Portugal previously.

Denying she had brought anything illegal into the country, she showed officers pictures of her time in France. However, as they scrolled, they came across a picture of the ‘white pellets’ and further searches revealed that Lins had ingested, secreted and concealed a kilo of the drug both internally and externally.

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After pleading guilty to being concerned in the fraudulent evasion of a prohibition on the importation of a class A drug, yesterday (October 17) she was jailed and told she will ‘almost inevitably’ be deported back to Brazil after serving 40 percent of her sentence.

Prosecuting, David Toal said that on August 24 this year, Lins had flown from Sao Paulo to Manchester via France and Portugal, with just a small pink cabin bag.

She was spoken to by Border Force officers via a Portuguese interpreter, and said this was the first time visiting the country. She added that she came to the UK to ‘walk around and research nice places’.

Lins said she had packed her suitcase herself and said she had not brought anything illegal into the UK.

“She volunteered her phone to show officers images she had taken in France, and whilst looking through officers saw images of white pellets, which were believed to be cocaine,” Mr Toal said.

“The defendant was arrested, and she told