Man forces wife to smuggle drugs in to Bahrain

TDT | Manama

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The High Appeals Court will pass its verdict on Friday in an appeal by a man charged with forcing his wife to smuggle drugs. Court files say the man, aged 33, forced his wife to hide drugs under her clothes to smuggle them into Bahrain. However, the plan went haywire when police searched the woman, who was acting nervous during customs procedures at the King Fahd Causeway. The Causeway officers recovered 350 grams of hashish hidden from the woman when they searched her.

Causeway police were also expecting a drug smuggling attempt based on a tip-off saying that a man was attempting to smuggle drugs into the Kingdom. However, the husband turned out clean when the officers searched him. During interrogation, the woman said she had no idea what was in the bag.

"I didn't know what was inside the bag," she said, adding that her husband "forced me to hide it under my clothes." "When I refused, he shouted at me," the woman told prosecutors, and her husband admitted the same. The woman also told prosecutors that her husband has a drug addiction.

"He always consumed drugs at our home in the presence of our children," the wife revealed. "He usually locks the door of one of the rooms, and he does it," she added. The husband, meanwhile, told prosecutors someone offered him BD1,000 to smuggle the drugs.