British Couple Arrested In Turkey After Smuggling Cannabis From Thailand

A young British couple is facing 30 years in jail after allegedly trying to smuggle two suitcases filled with cannabis into Istanbul Airport from Bangkok, Thailand.

Holly Cooper and Taylor Johnson, both 20, were about to make their connecting flight back to London but were instead arrested and beaten up by Turkish police, according to their families.

They’re now being kept in jail ahead of their trial, which could take a year before it reaches court.

A family friend told The Sun they were ‘good kids’, saying: “Ok, they’ve done something stupid this time, but everyone makes mistakes.

“They’ve been recruited and groomed by bigger criminals and exploited by them. They are alone in a Turkish prison. It’s shocking and apparently Taylor has been beaten up. The families are in bits.”

Their families have now launched a fundraiser to try and cover the costs of legal fees.

The fundraiser reads: ‘As many of you know Taylor was arrested in Turkey and we need to raise the funds to pay for his solicitor.

‘To some it may be cheeky but if you was put in this position you would do anything to be able to raise the funds.’

With the amount of stories we blog every month about Britons being busted for international drug smuggling, it’s a wonder how so many are still dumb enough to risk it. Yeah, I know their families claim they were coerced and exploited, but it was their choice at the end of the day.

Then again, I do wonder how many make it through undetected. After all, they can’t catch everybody. Still, the odds are probably not in your favour, especially when you look like the classic Essex/roadman couple who would try something like this.

Who knows? If they’d made it all the way back to London before being busted, they may have even got away with a slap on the wrist. Getting busted on a layover in Turkey though? That might actually be worse luck than being busted in Thailand. We’ll have to see how the trial goes.

For the British pensioner facing life in prison after he was found with £200,000 of meth in Chile, click HERE.