Pregnant smuggler avoids extradition

A DRUGS “mule” who is pregnant has won a High Court battle against extradition to Argentina on the grounds that it would violate her human rights.

Lucy Wright, from Bolton, Lancashire, had made a pledge to plead guilty to cocaine smuggling if her extradition to South America was halted and she was tried in the UK.

Yesterday, two judges in London allowed her appeal against extradition on the basis that it would infringe her right not to be subjected to “inhuman and degrading treatment”.

If extradited, Wright could have expected to receive a sentence in Argentina of up to 16 years, the High Court heard.