by Elena Chong
AN UNEMPLOYED woman who hid five packets of drugs in her
sanitary pad was given the minimum five years' jail on Tuesday for
drug importation.
Jeganthy Balakrishnan, 22, pleaded guilty to importing 17.19g of
methamphetamine in a private taxi at Woodlands checkpoint last Sept
8.
The court heard that the woman was told to alight on arrival at
the checkpoint at about midnight for a body search.
She admitted she had something with her. She removed two
sanitary pads she was wearing, and in one of them, two bundles
containing five packets of crystalline substance were
recovered.
She said that the drugs were packed into the sanitary pad by her
Malaysian husband in Johor Baru, to be delivered to a man at
Woodlands.
She could have been jailed for up to 30 years.