MONTEGO BAY, St James— Two British women charged for trying to smuggle cocaine out of Jamaica are slated to stand trial in January 2025.

Teraiya Stapleton and Genevieve Sanoussi, both 21-year-old university students, received their new court date during their appearance in the St James Parish Court last Wednesday.

They reportedly had several packages of cocaine totalling more than five pounds hidden inside several pairs of footwear when they were held at Sangster International Airport on October 20.

During Wednesday’s court sitting, the court clerk told the court that she had received an electronic copy of the forensic report and that the original document would be made available during the course of the day.

She added that the file will be completed once the Crown receives the chain of custody statement.

Judge Natiesha Fairclough-Hylton subsequently set the case for trial on January 14, 2025 and extended the women’s bail.

The allegations are that the women were checking in to board a flight to the United Kingdom when they were searched by an officer.

It is said that during the search several plastic bags with cocaine weighing two pounds and 1.58 ounces were found inside a pair of shoes in Stapleton’s luggage, and packages of cocaine weighing 3.5 pounds were found inside six pairs of slippers in Sanoussi’s luggage.

Under caution, Sanoussi reportedly said: “What? I feel like screaming! Tony gave them to me.”

Both women were arrested and charged.

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