{"id":71869,"date":"2025-05-18T21:03:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T12:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/18\/foreign-office-supporting-british-woman-after-reports-of-drug-smuggling-arrest-in-sri-lanka"},"modified":"2025-05-18T21:03:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T12:03:45","slug":"foreign-office-supporting-british-woman-after-reports-of-drug-smuggling-arrest-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71869","title":{"rendered":"Foreign office supporting British woman after reports of drug-smuggling arrest in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former cabin crew member Charlotte May Lee, 21, reportedly accused of trying to bring 46kg of cannabis strain kush into country<\/p>\n<p>UK officials have said they are supporting a British woman arrested in Sri Lanka amid reports a former cabin crew member has been accused of smuggling cannabis into the South Asian country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14724015\/British-stewardess-accused-bringing-cannabis-luggage-revealed.html\">MailOnline<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/34999830\/charlotte-may-lee-drug-smuggling-sri-lanka-bella-culley\/\">the Sun<\/a> reported that Charlotte May Lee, 21, from Coulsdon, south London, was detained at the main airport in the country\u2019s capital, Colombo, on Monday after arriving on a flight from Bangkok.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/18\/foreign-office-supporting-british-woman-after-reports-of-drug-smuggling-arrest-in-sri-lanka\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former cabin crew member Charlotte May Lee, 21, reportedly accused of trying to bring 46kg of cannabis strain kush into countryUK officials have said they are supporting a British woman arrested in Sri Lanka amid reports a former cabin crew member has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2545,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[674,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sri-lanka","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71870,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71869\/revisions\/71870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}