Drug mule mum, 24, facing jail after helping smuggle £13m worth of cannabis in 22 suitcases into UK

A DRUG mule mum is facing jail after helping smuggle £13million worth of cannabis in 22 suitcases into the UK. Paige Crisp, 24, was one of 11 smugglers who were caught at Birmingham Airport after travelling from Thailand. Paige Crisp smuggled £13million worth of drugs into the UK Credit: Jam Press She was one of 11 mules who stuffed the cannabis into suitcases Credit: Jam Press/National Crime Agency UK Border Force seized 460kg of cannabis, which had a street value of £13.8million. The group were all arrested with two large suitcases containing 20kg of the Class B drug. Sign up for The Sun newsletter Thank you! All the bags were so heavy the mules had to pay an excess charge at Bangkok Airport to put them in the hold. Crisp is now facing jail after she was convicted with her ten co-accused of attempting to carry, remove, deposit, harbour, keep, conceal and deal with Class B drugs with intent to evade prohibition on importing. Birmingham Crown Court heard the gang travelled from Thailand to the UK via Charles De Gaulle in France. Suspicions were raised when four of the smugglers arrived at Birmingham Airport from Paris with the large suitcases. The bags contained a thin layer of clothing on top of vacuum-packed cannabis. They also had eight Apple AirTag trackers – all connected to the same Apple ID account. Most read in The Sun Crisp will be sentenced later this year Credit: Facebook One of her co-defendants Gideon Olumoyegun posed with suitcases ahead of his flight Credit: Jam Press/National Crime Agency Crisp was convicted following a trial Credit: Jam Press/National Crime Agency The drugs were worth £13million Credit: Jam Press/National Crime Agency Crisp, of Malvern, Worcestershire, Tasia Nelson, 22, of Newquay, Cornwall, and Jaden Ramen, 23, of Merton, London, were all convicted after a trial. Carsten Kyei, 21, of Plaistow, London and Nathan Vitorino, 26, of Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, were both found guilty at a previous trial. Bradley Lloyd, 27, of Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, and Lewis Ross, 35, of Bolton, Lancashire, both changed their plea to guilty. Claire McCullough, 36, of Wythenshawe, Greater Manchester, Ryan Boachie, 32, of Edmonton, London, Gideon Oluwasetemi Olumoyegun, 26, of Dagenham, London, and Jamal Clarke, 22, of Mile End, London, all pleaded guilty at a previous hearing. Kyei, Vitorino, Boachie, Olumoyegun, Ross, Lloyd, and McCullough will be sentenced on September 3. Nelson, Crisp, and Ramen will be sentenced at the same court on October 22. Clarke faces a further offence of failing to surrender to police with hearing set to take place on the same date. National Crime Agency (NCA) senior investigating officer Paul Boniface said a “huge amount of planning” had gone into what he described as a “sophisticated attempt” to bring hundreds of kilos of cannabis into the UK. “The detailed co-ordinated flights and luggage demonstrate the lengths criminals will go to in order to hide their offending,” he said. “With thanks to Border Force, we were able to confiscate these drugs and stop criminals from benefiting financially from the damage they cause.”