BBC News, Yorkshire
National crime agencyA mother from Bradford, who used her children to smuggle a £ 14.4 meter cocaine from Mexico to Britain.
After importing 180 kg of cocaine in May, 54 -year -old Farzana Kausar of Walleili Road in Maningham was jailed for 13 years and four months in the Birmingham Crown Court on Friday.
On 11 November 2024, he was arrested while gathering his four sons, daughter and daughter -in -law from Birmingham Airport as he returned from Cancan with a drug -filled suitcase.
Rick McKenzie, Senior Investigating Officer of the National Crime Agency (NCA), said Kausar “was very well practiced as a high -end cocaine smuggling in his life”.
He said: “For his friends and people who thought he knew him, Farzana Kausar was a thoughtful, loving mam who looked very common.
“He picked a lot of pain to remove any mark of evidence.
“He pushed his children into heavy danger and allowed his futures to be effectively destroyed.”
He said that his youngest son was just 17 years old when he was “encouraged to play a major role in courier drugs in the country”.
National crime agencyKausar worked with an unknown partner in Pakistan, known as “uncle”, to help smuggling cocaine from Cancan to UK.
She claimed that she was only there to collect her children when she reached the airport with 180 kg cocaine, with a road price of about 14.4 meters.
Some drugs were handed over to a courier, while the rest was designed to take back Kosar’s house and left.
The NCA also discovered that it was the fifth time when the group cocaine at Birmingham Airport between August and November 2024.
He booked one or two-night trips for Amsterdam or Dublin and traveled without any goods, but then came to Birmingham as an arrival from Cancon, he gave time to his return flights-where there was an inner inner formula that brought drug-filled suitcases.
The group then led the Cancan baggage carousel after landing to collect suitcases and the family then walked through customs as if returning with their own bags.
His four eldest children accepted their roles in the conspiracy, while his youngest son and daughter -in -law convicted an organized crime group activities.
- 22 -year -old Umair Mohammad of Waterley Road, Bradford was imprisoned for eight years and a month
- 33 -year -old Junaid Shafaq of Waterley Road, Bradford was jailed for 10 years and nine months
- 28 -year -old Mohammad Shafaq of Waterley Road, Bradford was kept in jail for eight years and nine months
- 20 -year -old Safa Noor of Waterley Road, Bradford was kept in jail for seven years and two months
- 28 -year -old Sarah Hussain of Holibank Road, Bradford was sentenced to two years suspended
- 18 -year -old Hamza Shafaq of Waterley Road, Bradford will be sentenced on 7 October.
