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Chris Lewis gets 13-year sentence
« on: May 21, 2009, 04:32:13 PM »
Chris Lewis gets 13-year sentence

London: Former England fast bowler Chris Lewis was jailed for 13 years on Wednesday after being found guilty of smuggling cocaine into Britain in his cricket bag.

A jury at Croydon Crown Court near London convicted Lewis of trying to bring more than $215,000 worth of the drug into the country from St. Lucia, packed in cans of fruit and vegetable juice.

Lewis, 41, played 32 Tests and 53 one-dayers in the 1990s. He had claimed in his defence that he did not even know cocaine could be converted into the liquid form in which it was discovered in his luggage.

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Re: Chris Lewis gets 13-year sentence
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2009, 05:30:34 PM »
13 years seems very harsh considering Modi now runs BCCI!
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Re: Chris Lewis gets 13-year sentence
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2009, 05:52:34 PM »
Quote from: dextrous on May 21, 2009, 05:30:34 PM
13 years seems very harsh considering Modi now runs BCCI!

Unfortunately he does not run the British legal system
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Re: Chris Lewis gets 13-year sentence
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2009, 07:13:00 PM »
Quote from: sudzz on May 21, 2009, 05:52:34 PM
Quote from: dextrous on May 21, 2009, 05:30:34 PM
13 years seems very harsh considering Modi now runs BCCI!

Unfortunately he does not run the British legal system

britain must have much tougher laws than some of the other countries
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