An Irish couple are due to appear in court in the United Kingdom today charged with smuggling drugs through London's Gatwick Airport
The pair from Meath and Dublin are due in Crawley Magistrates Court, West Sussex, after customs officers at Gatwick seized about five kilos of cocaine with an estimated street value of about €438,000
Construction worker David John O'Toole (34) of Acorn Lodge, Clonard, Enfield, Co. Meath, and Catriona O'Keeffe (25) a cleaner of 27 Melrose Avenue, Clondalkin, Dublin, were stopped by officers at Gatwick's North Terminal yesterday morning.
They had arrived on a British Airways flight from St Lucia and were en route to Dublin. During a customs search the drugs were discovered in baggage.
Mr O'Toole and Ms O'Keeffe were subsequently arrested, interviewed and charged with smuggling cocaine into the United Kingdom.