Overview
- Poppie Kudiersky, 22, pleaded guilty at Manchester Crown Court to importing cannabis after customs seized two suitcases on her arrival from Thailand in February 2024.
- Officers found 57 vacuum‑packed packages weighing about 28.5kg in luggage tagged in her name, with the haul valued in reports at roughly £285,000.
- She said traffickers threatened to burn her family home and kill her five‑year‑old son unless she returned with the suitcases, a basis of plea the court accepted as mitigation.
- Prosecutors pointed to phone messages and photos of a Phuket holiday to question her coercion account, including references to a “free holiday” and acceptance that the cases were in her name.
- Judge Hilary Manley imposed a two‑year term suspended for two years with 15 rehabilitation days and 150 hours of unpaid work, noting her co‑traveller Mohammed Jacfer was jailed for two years earlier and citing NCA data showing arrests rising from 20 in 2022 to 680 in the first nine months of 2025.