LAHORE – *Czech Model bursts out inside the Pakistani Court as aPakistani* sessionscourt on Wednesday sentenced a Czech woman.
She was arrested last year on charges of attempting to smuggle heroin fromPakistan to Abu Dhabi.
She was sentenced to eight years and eight months in jail.
Additional Sessions Judge Shahzad Raza issued the verdict against21-year-old Tereza Hluskova. The co-accused in the case, Shoaib HafeezKhan, was acquitted due to reasonable doubt surrounding his role in thesmuggling bid.
Television footage and pictures showed that the model broke down in courtafter hearing the verdict of her case. She was shifted to a women jail bythe police.
Her lawyer Sardar Asghar Dogar said she will appeal. Hluskova was convictedduring a court appearance last week. Her sentence also includes an 800dollar (£605) fine.
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Since her arrest on January 10, 2018, Hluskova has told investigators thatshe came to Pakistan to work as a model, but someone put eight and a halfkilogrammes of narcotics into her luggage as she was returning.
She was arrested as she tried to board a flight for Abu Dhabi. Czechdiplomats had provided her legal assistance.
Over the course of her trial, nine witnesses had recorded their statementsagainst the accused.
