Woman, 25, who helped flood UK prisons with zombie drug Spice is jailed for role in £300k smuggling ring

A KINGPIN who helped flood British prisons with zombie cause Spice has been jailed for her relation successful a £300,000 smuggling ring.

Abigail Kavanagh delivered the synthetic cannabis to jails crossed Wales portion moving arsenic a "pivotal" subordinate of an organised crime group.

The 25-year-old besides collected currency for the cause empire and utilized concealed messages to put the drop-offs.

Kavanagh has present been jailed for 7 years and six months aft she admitted trafficking controlled drugs.

His Honour Judge Williams said: “You knew you were playing for precocious stakes, and you lost.”

Newport Crown Court heard Kavanagh disguised MDMA arsenic bath salts successful a bid to smuggle the Class A cause into Britain.

Border Force officials intercepted a bundle from Australia astatine East Midlands Airport wherever it was bound for Kavanagh's location address.

The officers discovered 10kg of MDMA, which had a imaginable thoroughfare worth of £300,000.

Kavanagh was arrested nether Operation Gemstone, which is tally by the Regional Organised Crime Unit for South Wales.

Police recovered the concealed messages connected her telephone that proved she was progressive successful arranging deliveries of Spice to prisons.

Detective Constable Rhys Richards, of Tarian, said: “Abigail Kavanagh was a pivotal subordinate of an organised transgression group.

"She was tasked with receiving Class A drugs with a imaginable thoroughfare worth of hundreds of thousands of pounds.

"She was besides tasked with arranging deliveries of Spice to prisons and collecting currency for the group.

“Kavanagh has received a lengthy custodial sentence, which sends a wide connection to those who take to get progressive successful this benignant of criminality.

"Tarian volition proceed to enactment intimately with spouse agencies, including Border Force and the National Crime Agency, to usage each assets wrong our power to bring these offenders to justice.”