BY TASHIEKA MAIR, Star Writer
western bureau:
A BRITON IS before the Montego Bay Resident Magistrate's Court to answer to drug possession charges.
SHE IS Diana Hamilton-Graham who was charged with possession, dealing and attempting to export cocaine after the drug was found in a suitcase that she had checked in at the airport.
Hamilton-Graham however pleaded not guilty saying she had no knowledge there were drugs in her luggage. She said someone she had stayed with during her two weeks stay in Jamaica gave her the suitcase because two of the wheels had broken from the suitcase she brought from England.
SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOUR
The allegations outlined in court are that on April 24 Graham checked in at 9 p.m. to board an Air Jamaica flight to London. The police officer observed her behaving suspiciously and as a result she was interviewed. She was later escorted to the luggage chute where she was asked to identify her suitcase.
The suitcase she identified was searched in her presence. When her clothing and personal items were removed a false compartment at the base of the suitcase was searched. Three packages containing 3.5 pounds of cream coloured substance resembling cocaine was found.
When cautioned she told the officer that her aunt in John's Hall, St. James had given her the suitcase because hers was damaged.
However when the police went to John's Hall they were not able to locate the woman and discovered the name the accused had given them was not correct and that the woman they know with a name close to the one given, was not related to Hamilton-Graham.
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