Cocaine lady likely to plead not guilty – UK Lawyer

Nayele, who was busted in the United Kingdom (UK) for carrying 12.5 kg of cocaine, was scheduled to appear before the Crown Court at Isleworth yesterday after pleading guilty on her first appearance in court on November 27, 2014; however, the case was postponed to today.

According to PEACE FM correspondent, Vida Adu Adutwumwaa, lawyers for Nayele pleaded for the case to be postponed due to their client’s ill health.

Apart from that the UK court needed more time to look at the forensic analysis of the cocaine to determine the specific amount of cocaine Nayele smuggled into the UK.

According to some legal experts, Nayele’s sentencing could range between 10 and 16 years’ imprisonment.

The case is listed in court 7 with case number T20141080 and identified as 88NC0093814.

Unconfirmed information gathered at the court on Monday indicated that Nayele is likely to change her earlier guilty plea. This will open the case and she would likely be sentenced to 13 years in prison according to legal experts.

Other arrests

After the arrests of Ametefeh, several others have been arrested in Ghana as her accomplices.

They included two women, Nana Akua Amponsah and Sadalia Sandra Nuhu, both businesswomen who travelled with her but were believed to have absconded after her arrest in the UK.

The two were arrested in Ghana upon their return and put before a Circuit Court for conspiring with Nayele to traffic narcotics. They pleaded not guilty and were subsequently granted bail.

Others were Alhaji Mohammed Dawood, a businessman who allegedly aided Nayele Ametefe and her two friends to use the VIP lounge of the Kotoka International Airport(KIA) in Accra, to transport cocaine; Abiel Ashitey Armah, a Foreign Service officer; Ahmed Abubakar, a protocol officer and Theophilus Kissi, a civil servant.