SA cocaine mule 'Druglocks' has sentence reduced in Thailand amnesty

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Nobanda was sentenced to 15 years in jail after being caught at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport with 1.5kg of cocaine mixed with baking powder in her dreadlocks in 2011. "All prisoners have received an amnesty, depending on their particular status as well as their excellent behaviour status," Henk Vanstaen, a Thailand resident who assists South Africans jailed in the kingdom, toldNobanda, a former Victoria Girls' High School pupil from Makhanda was 23 years old at the time of her arrest in Bangkok. The manner in which the drugs were hidden earned her the nickname"Druglocks" in international media reports.

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