SA drug mule caught with cocaine in her dreadlocks has sentence reduced in Thailand prison | CannyMaphanga
reports that her 15-year sentence was reduced in an amnesty granted to prisoners in Thailand by recently crowned Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn.
"Nobanda will benefit from a general amnesty granted to tens of thousands of prisoners by recently crowned Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn earlier this month," Henk Vanstaen, a Thailand resident who assists South Africans incarcerated in the kingdom told theNobanda was arrested at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport on December 12, 2011 after getting off a Qatar Airways flight. Approximately 1.
Nobanda told Thailand authorities that she was hired to deliver the drugs to a customer at a hotel in BankgokNobanda was travelling with a friend by the name of Sulezi Rwanqa at the time of her arrest. In a letter to her parents, Nobanda explained that she was initially travelling to Brazil to work in a shoe shop. Once there, she was approached by a Brazilian man who informed her that Rwanqa was waiting for her at a hotel.Nobanda wrote that she then traveled to Thailand with Rwanqa but when they landed, she had Rwanqa's phone, but"Rwanqa was nowhere to be found".
Rwanqa who returned to South Africa confirmed she was travelling with Nobanda but denied the claim that she was a recruiter, saying that she could not be blamed for her friend's arrest, News24 earlier reported.
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