BA steward gets 16 years for cocaine smuggling
A former British Airways steward has been sentenced for 16 years for smuggling six kilos of cocaine into the UK.
Police arrested Stephen Akpabio-Klementowski, 37, of Edgar Road, Hounslow, west London, on a flight from Kingston, Jamaica, when it landed at Gatwick Airport in June 2002.
The cocaine had a street value of 372,000 pounds.
Accomplice Richard Jarrett, 48, Jarrett, of Valley Gardens, Wembley, north-west London, was jailed for 17 years.
Although the two denied knowing each other, police found they shared a number of telephone calls and stayed at the same hotels in the Caribbean and South America.
Once released from prison, the two will not be allowed to leave the country for five years.
