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Nigerian Man Forces British Lover To Smuggle Heroin March 03, 2009 13:59, 570 views A British woman, who flew to China to start a new life with a man she met on the internet, has been jailed in Australia, after he forced her to smuggle drugs. Victoria Nicholson’s story was revealed yesterday, as police in Sydney began an investigation with the Chinese to track down the cruel hoaxer. The school teacher wrote ‘Love is blind’ on an internet dating site, as she searched for a companion after a string of failed relationships. Miss Nicholson endured several abusive relationships, but raised two children. She headed off to Turkey for a holiday and met a man in Fetya, who was to become her husband - but the marriage failed when she found out he was a gigolo trying to use her to get British citizenship. Her search for love on the internet was ‘like an addiction’, she told Sydney’s Sun-Herald newspaper, in an interview, in a Sydney prison. Then, online, she met a Nigerian called Emmanuel. He told her he loved her and offered the woman a new life in China. Miss Nicholson’s 22-year-old daughter warned her about taking the trip to Guangshou. But on the promise of a job and a lover, the lonely heart took off from London, in July, 2007. She told her family she had nothing to lose. Emmanuel met her at the airport in China and helped her find a job at a private school, but within weeks things began to change. Her plans to return home by Christmas collapsed when her return ticket to England disappeared - and Emmanuel started going out alone at night. When she asked if another woman was involved, he said that was not the case but added: “Nothing’s for nothing, Victoria.” Miss Nicholson described the horror scene that followed. When her lover returned home one night with two other Nigerian men, he told her that she and he would be delivering a packet of ‘important medicine’ to Australia. But the means of carrying the small package was to be her own body - forced into her during a sex session. She was put on a plane with an escort, who disappeared in the transit lounge of Bangkok Airport. She didn’t approach any officials to tell them of her plight, fearing that another member of the drug ring was on board the plane. At Sydney airport, she was pulled aside by customs officers and she confessed immediately to the secret package she was carrying. She has since pleaded guilty to a charge of importing a marketable quantity of an illegal drug - 264 grams of heroin - and has been sentenced to four and a half years in jail. “If I’m truthful to myself, I’ve been a fool,” she told the newspaper. Miss Nicholson has pleaded with Australian authorities to serve out her jail term in Britain so she can be closer to her mother, her daughter and her 21-year-old son, a Royal Navy Iraq veteran. |
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