Claudio dos Santos, a 21-year-old student at the University of Namibia, has been charged with smuggling cocaine into the southern African country after 76 packets of human hair inside baggage he was picking up at the international airport were apparently found to contain cocaine. The hair - used as hair extensions - has now been sent off to a lab for analysis.
According to police, the alleged cocaine was probably dissolved and then soaked in the hair before being put in the suitcase. If it had got through customs it would then have been separated from its “cunning hiding place”. They say the luggage Santos was picking up was supposedly excess luggage sent to his mother from the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, where she had visited a month ago.
If confirmed to be cocaine, what will they think of next?
