Thi Que Tran, 71, of Ascot Vale, and her daughter, Thi Minh Doan, 49, were arrested and taken to Royal Melbourne Hospital. There, police claim, the older woman passed another package of heroin which she had swallowed. Each pack allegedly contained 70 grams of heroin.
Her daughter was also found to be carrying internally a package containing 60 grams of heroin. The total value of the drugs was estimated at $60,000.
Thi Minh Doan pleaded guilty in the County Court on Thursday to a charge of importing a marketable quantity of heroin and was jailed for a minimum of two years. Her mother, an Australian citizen since 1993, has yet to plead to her own drug smuggling charge and is due in court on February 14.
The mother and daughter case is one of more than a dozen in the past year involving women accused of smuggling drugs into Australia.
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