Student jailed for drug smuggling

A British beauty student has been jailed for six-and-a-half years for trying to smuggle more than 10,000 amphetamine tablets into Australia.

Eleanor Kathleen Taylor, 19, was sentenced at the District Court of Western Australia, Perth, after pleading guilty to importing the drug.

The teenager, from Oxford, was arrested in April after a flight from London via Amsterdam and Johannesburg.

The court was told she was paid £5,000 to act as a drugs mule.

The drugs, with a street value of A$200,000, were found hidden in the lining of her suitcase during a routine search.

Judge Antoinette Kennedy said Taylor, who had no previous convictions, was "naive" and told her to serve three years before she could be considered for parole.