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A flight attendant Zailee Zainal has been in jail for almost a decade for hiding heroin in her underwear and smuggling into Australia to cover her daughter’s medical expenses for a chronic illness.
Malaysian flight attendant who smuggled heroin into Melbourne in her underwear eight times sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. Zailee Zainal became a drug courier to pay for hospital treatment for his sick daughter. “He was vulnerable and he was willing to do anything.” @ 9NewsMelb pic.twitter.com/Ad3kvRuEMU
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It took Zailee Zainal three months to learn to walk safely with a pound of heroin between her legs.
Zailee Zainal Malaysia-based cabin crew member
Malindo Air, a Malaysian-based cabin crew member, flew eight to Melbourne between October 2018 and January 2019.
Zailee Zainal Arrested
When the 40-year-old woman was arrested, she told border officials that she thought it was probably marijuana, but not heroin.
She said she only agreed to smuggle drugs to pay her daughter’s hospital bills.
The girl was born with a severe anorectal abnormality and required ongoing surgery and medication.
Zainal was desperate and agreed to transport drugs to a highly sophisticated transnational union.
Every time he arrived, he gave the drugs to another woman, known as the “rich aunt,” in a hotel bathroom for about $ 155,000 a packet.
“I was vulnerable and, at the time, I was willing to do anything to pay for (my daughter’s) medical operations and expenses,” Zainal told the Victoria County Courthouse.
“At the time, I was just thinking about (my daughter) and my family. I didn’t think about what these drugs could do to anyone else, to his family or friends.
“I am deeply ashamed and sorry to be involved.”
She was arrested Thursday for a maximum period of nine and a half years.
Zainal admitted to bringing drugs to Australia
Zainal admitted to bringing drugs to Australia at least 20 times in total.
But he pleaded guilty to a combined count of importing a commercial quantity of a drug controlled at the border eight times.
The police intercepted five heroin “bills”, weighing 4 kg in total.
Three more have passed.
Judge Michael Cahill said
Judge Michael Cahill said the circumstances that led Zainal to mail the drugs deserve some leniency and pity.
“You worked as an international courier for a highly sophisticated transnational drug union. He has been carefully trained to do his job, using codes and flight changes, to do it eight times, “said the judge.
“Even though they didn’t tell you you were carrying heroin, you knew you were carrying controlled drugs across the border and the people of Melbourne paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for them.
The drug gang was led by Melbourne’s “Queen of Richmond”, Michelle Ngoc Tran, who is awaiting conviction for her crimes.
Zainal must serve four years and nine months before being considered for parole.
He spent 640 days behind bars waiting to be convicted.
