Witnesses set to testify today in couple’s drug smuggling case

TDT | Manama

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

Prosecution witnesses will testify today in the case of an Arab man who forced his wife to hide drugs under her clothes to smuggle them into Bahrain.

The couple were captured on the Bahrain side of the King Fahad Causeway attempting to enter the Kingdom with 350 grams of hashish hidden. The woman’s nervousness exposed her after police officers unsuccessfully searched her husband, although a tip-off was sent to the customs officials that the man will arrive with drugs.

The woman was searched by the police and the drugs recovered from her. “I don’t know what was inside the bag. He ordered me to hide it under my clothes. When I refused, he shouted at me,” the woman told prosecutors, and her husband admitted the same.

“He always consumed drugs at our home in the presence of our children. He usually locks the door of one of the rooms and he does it.” The husband was offered BD1,000 to smuggle the drugs.