{"id":646691,"date":"2026-06-19T06:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646691\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T06:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:02:10","slug":"uk-actress-charged-with-importing-meth-worth-almost-300m-into-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646691\/","title":{"rendered":"UK actress charged with importing meth worth almost $300m into Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A British actress, who appeared in an Eastenders spin-off and a Jason Statham movie, has been charged with allegedly trying to smuggle 320kg of meth into Australia from West Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emaa Hussen, 34, appeared in a Sydney court on Thursday after she was charged with attempting to import a commercial quantity of methamphetamine into Australia. The maximum penalty is life in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police allege Hussen, along with a couple from South Australia, tried to import meth hidden in bags of charcoal in shipping containers from Ghana. The drugs had an estimated street value of A$296m (US$208m; \u00a3157m).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hussen was refused bail in an earlier court decision and is due back in court in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hussen played the character Naz in an Eastenders spin-off E20 which first aired in 2010. She was also in Jason Statham&#8217;s 2013 action thriller Hummingbird, which was released in the US as Redemption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australian police launched an investigation in April after border authorities detected anomalies in two shipping containers that had arrived at Sydney&#8217;s Port Botany from Ghana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Authorities found a &#8220;white crystalised substance&#8221; after they X-rayed the contents of the containers, which were listed as bags of charcoal. Further testing confirmed it was meth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police removed the drugs from the shipment before it was delivered to a storage facility in Girraween in Sydney&#8217;s western suburbs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British actress, who appeared in an Eastenders spin-off and a Jason Statham movie, has been charged with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-646691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646691","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=646691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}