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Smuggler jailed after cocaine-laced rum killed drinker

Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 5:38 pm
by Count Silvio
Cocaine smuggler jailed for 20 years after drug-laced rum killed drinker

Tragic chain of events led Lascell Malcolm to die after drinking shot from contaminated bottle.

A smuggler has been jailed for 20 years for the manslaughter of a taxi driver who died after unwittingly drinking a shot of rum from a bottle heavily laced with cocaine.

Lascell Malcolm's death was the tragic culmination of a chain of coincidences after the bottle of Bounty Rum and its lethal contents was taken aboard a flight from St Lucia to Gatwick airport by an unsuspecting passenger, who then passed it to another, before it was given to the driver as a thank-you present.

The drug had been smuggled in the bottle by Martin Newman, of Romford, east London, who was yesterday convicted of manslaughter by a jury at Croydon crown court. The jury heard he duped an acquaintance, Michael Lawrence, into taking two bottles on to the plane, saying he had exceeded his baggage allowance.
Read more at the Guardian.