Czech model, 25, who was sentenced to eight years in prison in Pakistan for trying to smuggle £1million of heroin into Ireland is CLEARED on appeal and will be released after two years in jail

  • Tereza Hluskova was seized with 19 lbs heroin in Jan. in Lahore
  • Prosecutors claimed that she was headed to Ireland via Dubai in Dubai.
  • Hluskova wept in front of the court when she was sentenced for 8 years in March 2019.
  • However, her lawyer revealed today that an appeals court had ruled in her release










A Czech model who was jailed for eight years in Pakistan for trying to smuggle £1million of heroin into Ireland has been cleared on appeal, her lawyer has revealed. 

Tereza Hluskova, 25, was arrested in possession of 19 lbs (8.5kg) of heroin in January 2018 at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport.

Prosecutors stated that she was traveling to Ireland via Dubai in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. 

Ms Hluskova, who was sentenced to eight years and eight months in prison and a fine in March 2019, insisted someone had placed the drugs in her suitcase without her knowledge.

Saif ul Malook, her lawyer, told AFP that the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond a reasonable suspicion and that the court ordered her release from prison.

Hluskova's lawyer today said that the 'prosecution failed to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt'

Czech model Tereza Hluskova breaks down in tears outside the court in Lahore on March 20, 2019, when she was jailed for eight years

Tereza Hluskova (Czech model) breaks down outside Lahore’s courtroom on March 20, 2019, as she was sentenced to eight-years imprisonment. 

Hluskova was caught attempting to smuggle £1million of heroin from Pakistan to Ireland, prosecutors claimed

Hluskova was caught attempting to smuggle £1million of heroin from Pakistan to Ireland, prosecutors claimed

Malook said that the paperwork to obtain her release order could take up to a week to process.

He stated that Hluskova intended to return to Prague.

“Based on information (from (her) lawyer,” the Czech foreign ministry stated in a tweet.

Hluskova claims that she traveled to Pakistan to be a model, and that someone stole her drugs. 

According to previous reports, Hluskova was found with a stash of Class A drugs in her luggage.

Officials from Pakistani Customs showed footage of her trying to board a flight for the United Arab Emirates.   

In the video, she says: “They gave me something for luggage. Three statues or something.” They said it was gifts. I didn’t know there was anything inside. 

Hluskova said strangers approached her and put ornaments in her luggage and that she had no idea they were full of drugs

Hluskova claimed that strangers approached her with ornaments and that they had filled her luggage with drugs.

The model had maintained she had no idea that the drugs were placed in her luggage

The model claimed that she didn’t know the drugs were in her luggage.  

Hluskova later said that strangers approached her and put ornaments in her luggage and that she had no idea they were full of drugs. 

Pakistan shares a porous border with Afghanistan. Afghanistan is the world’s largest illicit producer of opium despite a decade-long US and international counter-narcotics programs.

Drug trafficking is a serious crime in Pakistan. Arrests at airports are not uncommon.

The drug-smuggling routes that lead to Afghanistan, Central Asia, Europe, and North America include the South Asian nation.

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