A Polish couple were jailed this morning for smuggling €55,000 worth of heroin.

The man was jailed for nine years and the woman for eight. They were also fined €23,000 each.

The couple, Bartosz Jacek Goldzinski and Weronika Jakubowska were arraigned in October 2011.

They had arrived on a flight from Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris carrying 764grams of heroin.

Mr Goldzinski was carrying 92 capsules of the drug in his stomach and his girlfriend had one package in her vagina.

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