Would-be cocaine mule gets four years, fine after Ogle airport bust

Tamera Melville and one of the condom wrapped cocaine packets that she intended to take on a flight to Barbados

A woman was yesterday sentenced to four years in jail and fined $798,750 after admitting to swallowing 73 cocaine pellets as well as hiding cocaine wrapped in condoms in her vagina.

Tamera Melville, 23, who was held last Saturday at the Eugene F Correia International Airport where she planned on boarding a flight to Barbados, entered a guilty plea to a charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking when she appeared before Magistrate Rochelle Liverpool at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court.