Mum, 22, Avoids Prison After Trying To Smuggle £285K Of Drugs Into The UK

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from the spate of British nationals being busted for drug-smuggling this year, it’s that if you’re a young female, you’ve got a reasonably higher chance of being let off with a slap on the wrist. Bonus points if you’re conventionally attractive, and a mum.

Poppie Kudiersky, 22, was arrested at Manchester Airport after trying to smuggle £285,000 worth of cannabis into the UK from Thailand.

Kudiersky was busted after a customs officer stopped her and a companion she had been travelling with and seized two suitcases containing 28.5kg of the drug.

This was her story when interrogated: she had been ‘forced’ to go to Thailand and return with clothing that had been purchased with stolen credit cards.

However, whilst there, she was given two suitcases full of drugs instead and told her house in Denton, Greater Manchester would be burnt down and her five year old son killed unless she smuggled the drugs into Britain.

She says at one point, she was sent a photo of gangsters loitering outside her home in Manchester.

Notably however, one look at Kudiersky’s social media pages shows her lounging around the beaches of Phuket in her bikini, drinking cocktails, riding a jetski and taking a boat trip to the Phi Phi islands.

She had captioned one picture: ”Blessed with the foreign skin that tans easily.”

In the end, Kudiersky pleaded guilty to importing cannabis and was given two years in prison suspended for two years. Which means she’ll avoid jail entirely as long as she stays out of trouble for the next couple years. Should be simple enough?

Of course, her male travelling companion, Mohammed Jacfer, 26, also from Manchester, was jailed for two years after admitting drug importation. Lol – at least he wasn’t busted in Thailand, I guess.

It’s worth noting that Kudiersky had previous convictions for battery and possession of cannabis, which makes her extra lucky to be receiving a suspended sentence.

In fairness to Kudiersky, it is entirely plausible that she was coerced and intimidated into smuggling the drugs (although she had ‘reluctantly’ committed to a lesser crime before realising what she was really there for).

Mr Philip Hall, prosecuting, explained to Manchester Crown Court: “The pair both appeared to have two principal suitcases, together with smaller luggage. Both were seen on their respective phones before Kudiersky departed the luggage carousel with a trolley, upon which there were a number of pieces of luggage.

“Jacfer was stopped by the customs officer, as he was going through the green customs channel with two suitcases and a rucksack.

“He said he had been in Thailand for eight days and the customs officer asked, ‘Are these all your bags?’ Jacfer said “Should be” then looked at the cases and said ‘Where’s the name on them?

“‘No these aren’t my bags, mine must be out there. Can I go and look for them?

“The customs officer established the luggage tags of both cases were in the name of Poppie Kudiersky.

“One was X-rayed and found to contain a total of 57 vacuum packages containing approximately 28.5kg of cannabis.

“On February 5, 2024, officers attended at Kudiersky’s address and a phone she was holding was seized from her.

“When cautioned she replied, ‘His suitcase is gone. I’ve ripped the tag off it’. Later she commented, ‘I never had a choice’ and pointed out an empty black suitcase.”

”Her phone contained a conversation she had with an unidentified person in which accepted the cases seized from Jacfer were in her name and that he had been there for her when she had ‘meltdowns’ when they were away.

“That conversation became heated following the realisation that Jacfer had been arrested.

”In another message, it is clear that the defendant was trying to get a free holiday.

“Pictures on her phone suggest that she took full advantage of hotels and beaches and her mother questioned how she was funding the holiday.

”The defendant then goes on to say that ‘they’ are turning on her and that she has to fly with some case.

“She also says she was told, ‘shit’s gonna happen’ and that some threat was made towards her family.”

Kudiersky’s counsel Patrick Buckley said in mitigation: “It is accepted by all parties that she was subject to threats of violence both to her and her family.

“We understand that there are complications in her life.”

According to the National Crime Agency, the numbers of airline passengers caught smuggling cannabis into the UK has rocketed by 3,625% in just two years.

For the two girls from Birmingham who also avoided jail time after smuggling 35KG into the country from New York, click HERE. Very lucky indeed.