Wife 'follows' husband to prison for drugs
Her husband is in prison, but Loan still follows in his footsteps to transport drugs. This young woman has paid the price for her disregard for the law.
Nghe An Provincial People's Court has just opened the first instance trial of defendant Nguyen Thi Phuong Loan (born 1993), residing in Hung Dung ward, Vinh city, for the crime of "Illegal transportation of narcotics".
Loan's husband, Le TL, is currently serving a drug-related prison sentence at a prison in Ba Ria Vung Tau province. On April 4, 2024, a man named Trung (an acquaintance of Loan's husband) contacted Loan to hire her to go to Hanoi to transport drugs to Vinh for a salary of 20 million VND.
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Hearing that, Loan agreed and invited another friend to go to Hanoi, but did not say the purpose of transporting drugs. At 11pm that same day, Loan took her mother's car and went to Hanoi with her friend.
The next morning, when she arrived in Hanoi, Loan contacted Trung alone to receive the drugs. After receiving the “goods”, Loan put them in her car. To avoid detection by the authorities, this young woman deleted all of Trung’s call history, messages and Zalo address from her phone.
That same afternoon, Loan returned to Nghe An with drugs. When she arrived at Bac Vinh Bus Station (Nghi Kim Commune, Vinh City), she was arrested by the police. The evidence of the case was 434 grams of drugs.
At the trial, the defendant admitted to transporting drugs for hire from Hanoi to Nghe An. The defendant justified the crime by saying that he committed it to get money to take care of his two children.
The female defendant stated that her husband is currently serving a prison sentence, so she clearly understands the legal provisions if he commits a drug-related crime. However, out of greed, the defendant still committed the crime.
The defendant presented his difficult circumstances and young children to ask the court to consider reducing his sentence.
The defendant's actions are considered to be a violation of the law, drugs are the source of all other crimes, so they need to be dealt with severely. However, some mitigating circumstances for the defendant should also be considered, such as his honest confession and repentance.
Considering the case as a whole, the court sentenced Nguyen Thi Phuong Loan to 20 years in prison for "Illegal transportation of drugs".
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