Smuggler, 12, swallows heroin

by George Wright

April 12, 2002

A boy of 12 who swallowed 87 packets of heroin to smuggle them on a flight from London to New York is recovering in hospital today.

The child arrived alone in New York on a British Airways flight on Wednesday night, police said. He suffered severe stomach pains after taking a taxi from LaGuardia airport and was rushed to New York hospital in Queens.

His arrest, which comes two days after 13-year-old girl was charged with smuggling nearly £1 million worth of heroin into Britain, is the latest development in the intern ational drugs trade blighting major cities such as London.

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