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| Girls guilty in Ghana drugs case | |
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| Two British 16-year-old girls have been found guilty of trying to smuggle cocaine from Ghana to the UK. | |
| Yasemin Vatansever and Yatunde Diya, both of north London, were arrested at an airport in Accra on 2 July. | Yasemin Vatansever and Yatunde Diya, both of north London, were arrested at an airport in Accra on 2 July. |
| They were charged with attempting to smuggle more than 6kg (13lbs) of the drug on a BA flight to London. | They were charged with attempting to smuggle more than 6kg (13lbs) of the drug on a BA flight to London. |
| The girls denied the charges but have been found guilty by a Ghanaian court and could face up to three years in a juvenile detention facility. | |
| They are due to be sentenced on 5 December. | |
| The BBC's Will Ross in Accra said the girls will appeal against the verdict. | |
| Laptop bags | Laptop bags |
| They told the court they were set up, but the prosecution said they were involved from the start in a plot to smuggle the £300,000 worth of cocaine. | |
| The girls have already spent nearly five months in custody after they were arrested with laptop bags containing cocaine. | The girls have already spent nearly five months in custody after they were arrested with laptop bags containing cocaine. |
| They are being tried under Ghana's Juvenile Justice Act which means their trial had to be completed within six months. | |
| Since British Customs officials started working with their Ghanaian counterparts a year ago drugs with a street value of more than £60m have been intercepted en route from Ghana to Europe. |