Anthony Wolf Jenkins, 31, and Mollie O’Connor, 29, both from Newquay, admitted four and three counts of importation of Ketamine respectively.
The pair, who are in a relationship, arrived in the island from Exeter in August last year and were stopped by Border Agency officers at the airport.
They said they both used drugs recreationally, and although nothing was found on them, officers remained concerned and arrested them.
CT scans revealed that Jenkins had three packages concealed internally.
‘I’ve been waiting all day to get that out, it’s just Ketamine,’ he said.
O’Connor was found to have one package in her vagina.
Jenkins was carrying 139.92g of the drug, and O’Connor another 81.02g.
Their phones were seized and pin codes provided, which linked Rocco Guilbert, 22, and Rory Settle Johnson, 24, both from Guernsey, to the operation.
They had both separately met Jenkins at festivals and music events in the UK.
Guilbert admitted a charge of importation, and Johnson admitted a charge of supplying.
Messages revealed that in April Jenkins visited from Exeter with 13 ‘deal bags’, each with 1g of the drug, and a larger bag containing 20g of Ketamine.
In May, Jenkins arrived alone on the ferry. He was stopped and searched but nothing was identified, and information from the importation came from evidence found on his phone.
Messages on O’Connor’s phone found that the couple also visited in July.
In August, Guilbert was arrested in possession of £598 in cash and deal bags.
He failed to provide his pin code and was charged with and admitted that offence.
Johnson was arrested several months later after numerous phone evidence was found.
He had two phones and a laptop seized, and failed to provide passwords due to fears of getting third parties in trouble. He was charged with and admitted three RIPL offences.
Jenkins and O’Connor imported between 30-40g of Ketamine in April. The quantity from May remained unknown.
In July they imported between 100-120g, and were caught in August with 220.94g between them.
Jenkins and O’Connor were remanded in custody from their arrest.
Guilbert was released on conditional bail, and Johnson was bailed with a £215,000 security to the court.
Guilbert also admitted a charge of causing grievous bodily harm, captured on CCTV outside the Randy Paddle in February while on bail.
He had punched his victim, who hit his head backwards into a metal pole, suffering two fractures to his jawbone and required surgery in Southampton.
Guilbert was sentenced to three years and six months in prison for his importation charge from August last year. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his RIPL offence and 18 months for his GBH charge, bringing his total sentence to six years and six months.
For supplying Ketamine, Johnson was sentenced to three years and three months in prison. For three RIPL offences, he was sentenced to two years for each, to be served concurrently, but in addition to his sentence for the supply offence, bringing his total jail time to five years and three months.
Jenkins was sentenced to six years and six months in prison for the August importation. He was given two years for the April offence, three years of the May incident and five years for the July one, all to be served concurrently to the six-and-a-half year sentence.
O’Connor received a prison sentence of four years and 10 months for the August importation. She had 18 months for the April importation and three years and six months for the July importation, to be served concurrently to the longest sentence.
Judge Catherine Fooks quoted one of the defendants, who said that drug use caused ‘damage and misery’.
‘You are all young people who have been blown off course by drug use,’ she said. ‘You can’t change what you have done, so make sure you get back to the people you can be.’
Jenkins and O’Connor will serve their prison sentences from the date they were remanded in custody in August last year. Johnson and Guilbert started their sentences from the date of sentence.
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