Ellie Crampsie pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of cannabis (Picture: ecrampsie444)
A social media influencer who tried to smuggle more than £150,000 of cannabis through Edinburgh Airport is facing jail.
Ellie Crampsie was arrested after she was allegedly found with more than 17kg of the drug in her luggage as she arrived back in the UK from a holiday in Thailand last year.
The 23-year-old pleaded guilty to being concerned in the supply of cannabis to others on March 26 at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.
Crampsie, of Broomhouse, Glasgow, runs her own beauty business and also promotes events and nights out in the city to thousands of social media followers.
Emma Laing, the prosecutor, told the court Crampsie was stopped by Border Force officers in April last year, having flown to the Scottish capital from Thailand via Paris.
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Ellie Crampsie showed off her lavish lifestyle on Instagram (Picture: ecrampsie444)
Ms Laing said: ‘She was asked the usual questions by the officer and she confirmed she had travelled from Thailand.
‘Her luggage was opened and a number of vacuum packages were within.’
The court heard she was found with 17 separate sealed packs of cannabis with between £115,000 and £151,000 of the class-B drug in total in her suitcase.
Crampsie’s defence lawyer said the woman had ‘the benefit of the support of her parents who have attended court today’.
Sheriff Graeme Watson said: ‘I’m going to adjourn sentencing in this case to allow the court to obtain a criminal justice social work report and a restriction of liberty assessment.
‘In the meantime, I am going to continue your bail conditions.
‘That should be no prejudgment of what comes next, all sentencing options will be open to me on the next occasion, do you understand that?’
Ellie Crampsie runs her own beauty business and also promotes events and nights out in the city (Picture: ecrampsie444)
Crampsie’s case follows that of a young mother who avoided jail after she tried to smuggle £285,000 worth of cannabis into the UK from Thailand.
Poppie Kudieersky, 22, claimed traffickers would have murdered her child unless she agreed to be a drug mule.
She was arrested after customs officers at Manchester Airport stopped a companion she had been travelling with and seized two suitcases containing 28.5kg of the drug.
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