Kinder Egg surprises cocaine trafficker with four years in prison

Tuesday 06 March 2018

A man who hid ‘high purity’ cocaine inside a Kinder Egg when he travelled to the island from Liverpool has been sentenced to four years in prison.

29-year-old Ibrahim Abdullah Roslan, from Liverpool, was stopped by customs officers at Jersey Airport after he arrived on an EasyJet flight from Liverpool on 28 October 2017. Initial swabs of his bag and headphones detected cocaine.

Roslan removed a condom-wrapped package from his crotch, which contained a yellow plastic container from a Kinder Egg with two packets of white powder inside. Tests revealed that one packet contained 13.55 grams of cocaine with a purity level of 70%, and the other had 4.73 grams of powder believed to be a ‘bulking agent’.

Due to the high purity of the cocaine, the street value of the drug seized could have a street value up to £2,800, with a potential value of up to £9,500 if it had been mixed to a lower purity.

Roslan appeared in the Royal Court to be sentenced for smuggling cocaine as well as three other unrelated charges.

He is charged for possession of a controlled drug when police found 1.57 grams of cocaine in his wallet when his car was searched on 30 August 2017. Roslan told Police that the drug may have been left by the car’s previous owner as he had only bought it recently or as he often provided ‘Jersey Lifts’, it may have been left as a joke by a passenger.

The 29-year-old was also in Court for a careless driving charge and for failing to stop and report an accident after he overturned his car on 12 October 2017, while giving his new manager a lift home.  

Presiding, Royal Court Commissioner Julian Clyde-Smith - sitting with Jurats Pitman, Dulake, Nicolle, Crill and Grimes - heard that both a witness and the passenger felt scared and intimidated, so locked themselves in the car when Roslan tried to open the doors, shouting: “Don’t call the police.”

Defending, Advocate Lucy Marks said Roslan was distressed when he had heard that the two women felt scared, as he was just trying to open the door to check his passenger was ok. She said he regrets his behaviour and accepts that he was travelling too fast for the wet conditions, but there is “no suggestion that his driving was impaired by alcohol or any substance” and that the road accident “caused no damage to any other car or property.”

She added that the car accident involving his new manager meant he lost his new job leaving him stressed and this was the reason he had used cocaine - to which he admitted having an addiction.

Pictured: Roslan told police he remembers taking a left past Longueville Manor when he drove his manager home, but the next thing he remembered was the Audi being upside down (Google Maps.) 

Advocate Marks said Roslan had no plans to bring drugs back to Jersey, but on the day of his flight he had bumped into a friend in Liverpool who offered him cocaine. She described the importation as “unplanned and ill-thought through” so much so that he had bought the Kinder Egg to smuggle the drug in an airport shop, but the cocaine had been for personal use.

The Court agreed with the Crown’s request for a four-year custodial sentence and also disqualified Roslan from driving for 18 months.

Commissioner Julian Clyde-Smith told Roslan the sentence is the correct amount to reflect all the charges, including the most serious offence of drug importation, which he committed a couple of months after he had been cautioned for possession of cocaine.

The Commissioner added that the careless driving offence was also “very serious”, stating: “The passenger was clearly very frightened by the car turning on its roof” indicating that the injuries sustained could have been much worse. He also acknowledged that Roslan also “frightened an innocent witness.”