Convicted drug mule Nolubabalo "Babsie" Nobanda's sentence for smuggling cocaine into Thailand in her dreadlocks has been reduced by two-and-a-half years. TimesLive reports that her 15-year sentence was reduced in an amnesty granted to prisoners in Thailand by recently crowned Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn. In a letter to her parents, Nobanda explained that she was initially travelling to Brazil to work in a shoe shop. Once there, she was approached by a Brazilian man who informed her that Rwanqa was waiting for her at a hotel. Nobanda wrote that she then traveled to Thailand with Rwanqa but when they landed, she had Rwanqa's phone, but "Rwanqa was nowhere to be found".

Source: News 24 May 16, 2019 19:41 UTC