Hundreds of passengers on a transatlantic flight are having to travel home from Scotland - because their plane couldn’t land in Manchester.
24.01.2020 - 03:16 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A mother who was stopped at Manchester Airport with eight bags of luggage containing 22,600 cigarettes and more than 90 kilos of tobacco said they were for her own personal use.
Leila Messaoudi, 43, was questioned after arriving in Manchester via London Heathrow following a flight from Dubai.
She later claimed she didn't know what she had done was illegal.
"It would have obviously taken years and years for those cigarettes and tobacco to be consumed by you," Judge Michael Leeming said.
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