Two sisters who tried to smuggle £200,000 of cocaine disguised as chocolate-coated biscuits have been jailed.

Larissa, 27, and Dana, 24, Janmaat hid 2.5kg of the Class A drugs inside chocolate-covered bricks, as well as inside packets of iced tea.

The pair, from the Netherlands, had been travelling to London from Amsterdam by coach when they were caught on April 12.

Border Force officers in France stopped the women and asked them about the unusual amount of sweets in their luggage, to which Dana replied: ‘I like sweets’.

But they quickly realised the iced tea packets were ‘rock-solid’ and after testing the biscuits, realised they were cocaine.

The volume of drugs was deemed to have a street value of £200,000.

Both sisters pleaded guilty to importing cocaine at a hearing earlier this month.

Today they were each jailed for six years at Canterbury Crown Court.

NCA branch commander Matt Rivers said: ‘Organised crime groups rely on smugglers like the Janmaat sisters to do their dirty work and bring cocaine into the UK.

‘There is no doubt Larissa and Dana knew what they were doing. Let us be clear, anyone who brings drugs into the UK is a link in the chain of organised crime.

‘Importations like this can fuel county lines-type exploitation that we see causing so much harm in our communities. This is why we are determined to do all we can to break that chain.’

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