Questioned about what she had been doing in France<\/a>, the unemployed 40-year-old said she had been scattering ashes in Lyon.<\/p>\n But on searching the car, Border Force officers found two custom-built hides in its footwells containing 13 guns, 289 rounds of ammunition, and 5kg of heroin<\/a>.<\/p>\n Image: The stash of military-grade weapons comprised two Skorpion sub machine guns, an Uzi sub machine gun, a Glock handgun, and nine converted blank-firing pistols.<\/p>\n The heroin had a street value of \u00a3500,000, according to the National Crime<\/a> Agency (NCA).<\/p>\n Read more: Image: Image: Under questioning, Sanderson of Naishcombe Hill, Wick, Bristol, claimed she thought she was smuggling cannabis.<\/p>\n She later admitted smuggling firearms, ammunition, and Class A drugs, and was sentenced to nine years in jail at Canterbury Crown Court on Thursday.<\/p>\n NCA branch commander Rachel Bramley said: “Thanks to a brilliant detection by our Border Force partners and the NCA investigation, these terrifying weapons and ammunition are out of the hands of extremely dangerous criminals.<\/p>\n “Firearms crime in the UK is among the lowest in the world, but these guns had the potential to cause horrific damage.<\/p>\n Share<\/p>\n \n October: Could a drone drop a gun into prison?\n <\/p>\n “We have seen in recent years the tragic consequences of entirely innocent victims getting caught in the crossfire of criminals with automatic weapons such as Skorpion machine pistols.<\/p>\n “With Sanderson’s jailing, the organised crime group behind this smuggling plot have lost a trusted courier and profits they are unable to plough back into further offences.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who smuggled an arsenal of “terrifying weapons” and \u00a3500,000 worth of heroin into Britain in her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-459784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/skynews-guns-drugs-crime-kasha-sanderson_7183446.jpg\")
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\n The custom-built hide in Kasha Sanderson’s car. Pic: NCA<\/p>\n
Weapons, drugs, cash, and luxury goods seized in Liverpool raids<\/a>
Prisoners had drugs and weapons ‘delivered to order’<\/a><\/p>\n![\"One](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/skynews-crime-guns-drugs_7183447.jpg\")
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\n One of the guns seized by Border Force officers. Pic: NCA<\/p>\n![\"Ammunition](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/skynews-guns-drugs-crime-kasha-sanderson_7183445.jpg\")
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\n Ammunition seized by Border Force officers. Pic: NCA<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/skynews-prisons-drone-malone_7051463.jpg\")
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