A woman tried to smuggle cocaine hidden in bottles of orange juice syrup.

The drugs were worth nearly £150,000 and she was jailed for five years.

Berryl Landveld, 35, was stopped when she arrived into the UK at Dover Eastern Docks on June 9 as a passenger on a coach from Amsterdam.

On searching her suitcase, Border Force officers discovered four one-litre bottles of squash in a carrier bag.

The cocaine was mixed in the liquid.

Forensic experts found the bottles contained 3.25 kilos of cocaine with an average purity of 69 per cent, worth an estimated £146,340.

After pleading guilty to importation charges Landveld, from the town of Aalsmeer in the Netherlands, was sentenced to five years and four months in prison at Canterbury Crown Court.

The National Crime Agency investigated.

After the case Deborah Cook, Dover operational and financial investigation manager, said: “Drugs fuel violent crime and other criminal activities.

"Taking an enabler like Landveld out of the equation halts a line of drug supply but also disrupts the wider criminal activity.”

David Smith, Deputy Director of Border Force South East and Europe, said: “This is another example of how our officers have prevented dangerous Class A drugs from ending up on the streets of the UK.

“Border Force will continue to work with our law enforcement partners, like the NCA, to ensure we do all we can to bring those intending to profit from illegal activity to justice.”