Johannesburg – Magda Venter is worried about her nieces. Just six years ago they lost their father; now their mother is locked up in a Thai jail, facing years behind bars for allegedly smuggling R8 million worth of cocaine into the southeast Asian country.
Monica Meere, from Vanderbijlpark, was arrested on Thursday when she landed at the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok and customs discovered 7kg of cocaine in her luggage. The drugs were inside three unopened boxes of chocolate as well as two separate packages inside her luggage.
Venter’s brother, Bertus, was Meere’s partner and the couple had two daughters, aged 14 and 12.
