Cocaine smuggler wishes he'd taken beating

Written By Unknown on Jumat, 12 April 2013 | 11.25

A BRITISH cruise ship passenger caught entering Australia wearing a wet suit under his clothes stuffed with cocaine, now says he should have taken "the beating" from the loan shark who put him up to it.

Ronald Fletcher, 60, told the Downing Centre District Court on Friday he met up with a couple called "Pete and Sheila" while onboard the P&O cruise Aurora in Auckland, New Zealand.

From them, the UK national said, he picked up a number of packages in order to pay off a 35,000 pound debt to a loan shark back home.

But upon disembarking in Sydney in February last year his plans fell apart when a police sniffer dog found him out.

It was quickly discovered he was hiding about 19 kilograms of pure cocaine in carefully moulded packages inside the wetsuit.

"I'm dreadfully sorry and remorseful that I ever got involved in something as ridiculous as this," Fletcher said during his sentencing hearing on Friday.

"I wish I had just taken the beating."

Fletcher told the court he borrowed the money in mid-2010 to pay off some home renovations but the loan shark, "George", began threatening him and his daughter after he failed to cough up.

However, the court also heard that in September, while supposedly still needing to find the money he owed, Fletcher holidayed for two weeks in America.

Fletcher said he had a "reasonable" time on the cruise, spent money at the ship's bar and spa and toured sights in various stopovers along the way.

"I went to Alcatraz which I probably shouldn't have done."

The hearing before Judge Leonie Flannery continues.


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