A British mother and her daughter have been arrested at a Spanish airport after allegedly trying to fly back to the UK with 42 kilos of cocaine in their luggage.
The pair, aged 47 and 19, allegedly posed as tourists visiting the east coast city of Valencia for Easter before attempting to return to Britain with suitcases full of the class-A drug.
They were held on Thursday night last week, just before the start of the main Easter activities and around three days after their arrival.
The cocaine had been packed into two suitcases inside 23 packets and in tablet form, according to local press reports.
The pair held are said to have been booked on a flight back to Birmingham.
They were remanded to a local jail after appearing before a judge in Quart de Poblet, a municipality near Valencia which is the closest to Valencia’s Manises Airport.
Police have not yet made any official comment but are expected to do so later today.
At the end of May Spanish police went public with the arrests of a British couple aged 33 and 34 held at the same airport after 33 kilos of marijuana was found in their luggage.
